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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
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
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
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
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
Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
— 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
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
— 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
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
— 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
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