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Children and fools always speak the truth. — Mark Twain

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat. — Mark Twain

When you find yourself on the side of the majority, you should pause and reflect. — Mark Twain

The best of us would rather be popular than right. — Mark Twain

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy. — Robin Williams

I can still hear the words you whispered when you told me I can stay right here forever in your arms from Forever and for Always — Shania Twain

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. — 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

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. — Mark Twain

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain

Slade had to kill several men - some say three, others say four, and others six - but the world was the richer for their loss. — Mark Twain

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. — Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. — 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

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. — Mark Twain

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. — Mark Twain

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them. — Mark Twain

So I held on till all the late sounds had quit and the early ones hadn't begun yet; and then I slipped down the ladder. — Mark Twain

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes. — Mark Twain

Isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so. — Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. — Mark Twain

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare. — Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. — Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. — Mark Twain

And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. — Mark Twain

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion. — Mark Twain

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it. — Mark Twain

Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done. Do you like it? — Mark Twain

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge. — Mark Twain

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps! — Mark Twain

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across. — Shania Twain

A happy heart comes first, then the happy face. — Shania Twain

For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies. — Michael Patrick Hearn

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it. — Mark Twain

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. — Mark Twain

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. — Mark Twain

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise ... — Mark Twain

You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, you're still the one I want for life. — Shania Twain

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. — Mark Twain

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction. — Mark Twain

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. — Mark Twain

Man is the only animal who blushes...or needs to. — Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. — Mark Twain

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No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit. — Mark Twain

Ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins! — Mark Twain

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species. — Mark Twain

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good. — Mark Twain

Mark Twain, the thinking man's Colonel Sanders, reputedly said, America is New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Everywhere else is Cleveland. — Russell Brand

Well, it rained mortar and masonry the rest of the week. This was the report; but probably the facts would have modified it. — Mark Twain

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. — 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

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

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing. — 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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor. — Mark Twain

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

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime. — Mark Twain

He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though - and loathed him. — Mark Twain

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick. — Mark Twain

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of? — Shania Twain

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side. — Mark Twain

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. — 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

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

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. — Mark Twain

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head. — Mark Twain

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. — Mark Twain

The more I know about people, the better I like my dogs. — Mark Twain

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got. — Mark Twain

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze. — Mark Twain

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer. — 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

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. — Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. — Mark Twain

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. — Mark Twain

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain

Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race? — Mark Twain

Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; — 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

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. — Mark Twain

Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music. — Shania Twain

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. — 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

Such is the human race. Often it seems such a pity that Noah.. didn't miss the boat. — 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

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter ... — 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

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

I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for. — Shania Twain

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. — Mark Twain