Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mark Twain

• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
• A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
• A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
• All generalizations are false, including this one.
• All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
• 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.
• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
• By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
• Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
• Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
• Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
• Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
• Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
• Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
• God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
• Golf is a good walk spoiled.
• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
• Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
• Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
• Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
• I can live for two months on a good compliment.
• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
• I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
• I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
• I never let schooling interfere with my education.
• I've never let my school interfere with my education.
• If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.