Mark Twain Quotes
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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Probable nor'east to sou'west winds, varying to the soutard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes with thunder and lightning.
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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
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It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people the Filipinos free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
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I had now-not for the first time, nor the thousandth-trampled upon an old and wise and stern maxim of mine, to wit: 'Supposing is good, but finding out is better.'
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The 'bus is English. When that is said, all is said. As a rule, any English thing is nineteen times as strong and twenty-three times as heavy as it needs to be. The 'bus fills these requirements.
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Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
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...now...that I am a wise person. As for me, I wish there were some more of us in the world, for I find it lonesome.
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An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.