Top 2442 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Twain - Page 3
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
When in doubt tell the truth.
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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.
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
We are all alike, on the inside.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.
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