Mark Twain Quotes
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
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India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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France has usually been governed by prostitutes.
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An unpopular opinion concerning politics or religion lies concealed in the breast of every man; in many cases not only one sample, but several. The more intelligent the man, the larger the freightage of this kind of opinions he carries, and keeps to himself.
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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In grandchildren I am the richest man that lives to-day: for I select my grandchildren, whereas all other grandfathers have to take them as they come, good, bad, and indifferent.
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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth-a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.
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It may be called the Master Passion-the hunger for Self-Approval.
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.
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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
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We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.
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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.