Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mark Twain

• 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.
• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
• It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
• It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
• It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.