Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a popular American author and humorist. Upon his death, he was lauded as the “greatest American humorist of his age.” Twain was called “the father of American literature” and he was most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(1835-1910)
– Mark Twain Quotes –
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~ Mark Twain
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.
~ Mark Twain
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
~ Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
~ Mark Twain
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
~ Mark Twain
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
~ Mark Twain
That’s what an army is — a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
~ Mark Twain
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
~ Mark Twain
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose peace and whose refuge are for us all. The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
~ Mark Twain
It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good — and less trouble!
~ Mark Twain
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one’s self-approval.
~ Mark Twain
A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
~ Mark Twain
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
~ Mark Twain
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
~ Mark Twain
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain
Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
~ Mark Twain
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
~ Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
~ Mark Twain
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to
~ Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.
~ Mark Twain
It is wiser to find out than to suppose.
~ Mark Twain
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
~ Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
~ Mark Twain
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
~ Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
~ Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~ Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
~ Mark Twain
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
~ Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
~ Mark Twain
To cease smoking is the easiest thing. I ought to know. I’ve done it a thousand times.
~ Mark Twain
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
~ Mark Twain
Be careful when reading health books; you may die of a misprint.
~ Mark Twain
Often, the surest way to convey information is to tell the strict truth.
~ Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
~ Mark Twain
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
~ Mark Twain
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
~ Mark Twain
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
~ Mark Twain
