Famous Quotes

Quotes by Mark Twain

• 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.