Mark Twain Quotes
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
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'In God We Trust.' It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased: it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. And in a measure it is true - half the nation trusts in Him. That half has decided it.
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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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All right, then, I'll go to hell.
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
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I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done him.
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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He George Washington Cable has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.
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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so.'
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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They spell it 'Vinci' and pronounce it 'Vinchy'. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.