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Mark Twain Quotes

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug  (Mark Twain Quotes) The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right  (Mark Twain Quotes) Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so  (Mark Twain Quotes) There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce  (Mark Twain Quotes) There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded  (Mark Twain Quotes) When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old  (Mark Twain Quotes) When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people  (Mark Twain Quotes) What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce  (Mark Twain Quotes) As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake  (Mark Twain Quotes) Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one  (Mark Twain Quotes) I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not  (Mark Twain Quotes) Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them  (Mark Twain Quotes) Broad, wholesome, charitable views.. can not be acquired by vegetating in one’s little corner of the earth  (Mark Twain Quotes) Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand  (Mark Twain Quotes) A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn’t likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn’t likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!  (Mark Twain Quotes) I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task  (Mark Twain Quotes) There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail  (Mark Twain Quotes) We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal  (Mark Twain Quotes) Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable  (Mark Twain Quotes) Only when a republic’s life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time  (Mark Twain Quotes) History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably  (Mark Twain Quotes) God’s great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage  (Mark Twain Quotes) When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence  (Mark Twain Quotes) One must keep one’s character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can’t, then assume one  (Mark Twain Quotes) There’s some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it  (Mark Twain Quotes) If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else’s eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive  (Mark Twain Quotes) And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!  (Mark Twain Quotes) 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 Quotes) A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring  (Mark Twain Quotes) A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands  (Mark Twain Quotes)
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