Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“After much reflection—suppose it was a lie? What then? Was it such a great matter? Aren’t we always acting lies? Then why… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
