Mark Twain Quotes
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod - and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.
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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
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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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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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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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This poor little one-horse town.
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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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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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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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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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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
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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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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
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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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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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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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The bicycle had what is called the 'wabbles', and had them very badly. In order to keep my position, a good many things were required of me, and in every instance the thing required was against nature. Against nature, but not against the laws of nature.