Mark Twain Quotes
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I think the President is clearly insane in several ways, and insanest upon war and its supreme glories. I think he longs for a big war wherein he can spectacularly perform as chief general and chief admiral, and go down in history as the only monarch of modern times that has served both offices at the same time.
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It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
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Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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She takes an undaughterful pleasure in noting that now the newspapers are beginning to concede with heartiness that she does not need the help of my name, but can make her way quite satisfactorily upon her own merits. This is insubordination, and must be crushed.
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We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
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This poor little one-horse town.
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William Dean Howells applauded, and was full of praises and endorsement, which was wise in him and judicious. If he had manifested a different spirit I would have thrown him out of the window. I like criticism, but it must be my way.
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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It is my hope sir, that the ass who invented the 'age of consent'-any age of consent between cradle and grave-is with his progenitors in hell, and that the legislatures that are keeping the resulting law in force will follow him soon.
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
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How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.