Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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All right, then, I'll go to hell.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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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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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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'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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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.
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God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
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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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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them. If I had taken out a life policy on this one the premiums would have bankrupted me ages ago.
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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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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.