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Children and fools always speak the truth.
— Mark Twain
The best of us would rather be popular than right.
— Mark Twain
Geological time is not money.
— Mark Twain
All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure ... MARK TWAIN
— Julia London
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
— Mark Twain
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
— Mark Twain
A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is - as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility - dukes and such.
— Mark Twain
When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.
— Mark Twain
Architects cannot teach nature anything.
— Mark Twain
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.
— Mark Twain
Tolstoy carelessly neglects to include a boat race.
— Mark Twain
When its steamboat time
you steamboat — Mark Twain
you steamboat — Mark Twain
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
— Mark Twain
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.
— Mark Twain
The heart is the real fountain of youth.
— Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction...
— Mark Twain
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter ...
— Mark Twain
I don't want no better book than what your face is.
— Mark Twain
She clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far echoes turned them all to jeering laughter.
— Mark Twain
Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!
— Mark Twain
I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
— Mark Twain
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
— Mark Twain
Polished air-tight stove (new and deadly invention),
— Mark Twain
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
— Mark Twain
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
— Mark Twain
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
— Mark Twain
gone, you see, yet finding
— Mark Twain
Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
— Mark Twain
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
— Mark Twain
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
— Mark Twain
It is better to support schools than jails.
— Mark Twain
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate ... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.
— Mark Twain
I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ... most of which has never happened.
— Mark Twain
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.
— Mark Twain
A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
— Mark Twain
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
— Mark Twain
Do one thing every day you don't want to do.
— Mark Twain
It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
— Mark Twain
All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.
— Mark Twain
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
— Mark Twain
The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone
— Mark Twain
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
— Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.
— Mark Twain
Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.
— Mark Twain
It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
— Mark Twain
I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.
— Mark Twain
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
— Mark Twain
Demagogue
a vessel containing beer and other liquids. — Mark Twain
a vessel containing beer and other liquids. — Mark Twain
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
— Mark Twain
Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
— Mark Twain
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.
— Mark Twain
A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.
— Mark Twain
Don't wait the time is never just right.
— Mark Twain
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
— Mark Twain
Mark Twain said "all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.
— Sean Patrick
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
— Mark Twain
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
— Mark Twain
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
— Mark Twain
Every person is a book, each year a chapter,
— Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to bigotry.
— Mark Twain