Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mark Twain

• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
• To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
• To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.
• Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
• We have the best government that money can buy.
• What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
• What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
• When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
• When in doubt tell the truth.
• When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
• When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
• Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
• Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
• Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
• Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.