Mark Twain Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mark Twain
Mark Twain Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?
Slade had to kill several men - some say three, others say four, and others six - but the world was the richer for their loss.
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.
There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.
There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible
These are sad days in literature. Homer is dead. Shakespeare is dead. And I myself am not feeling at all well.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both,
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.
Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ... most of which has never happened.
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!
Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.
All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.