--- title: "7 Five Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "7 Five quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Five sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89d/mark-twain-22_betray_a-jay-hasnt-got-any-more-principle-than_581423.png" --- > [A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-jay-hasnt-got-any-more-principle-than-a-congressman-a-jay-will-lie/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89d/mark-twain-22_betray_a-jay-hasnt-got-any-more-principle-than_581423.png) > [This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/this-is-a-christian-country-why-so-is-hell-inasmuch-as-strait-is-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/mark-twain-22_america_this-is-a-christian-country-why-so-is-he_856784.png) > [I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-have-only-one-moral-precept-never-smoke-more-than-five-cigars-at-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/257/mark-twain-22_cigar_i-have-only-one-moral-precept-never-smok_1053207.png) > [Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/simple-rules-for-saving-money-to-save-half-when-you-are-fired-by-an/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/161/mark-twain-22_charity_simple-rules-for-saving-money-to-save-ha_1447058.jpg) > [There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-no-use-in-your-walking-five-miles-to-fish-when-you-can/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/mark-twain-22_boat_there-is-no-use-in-your-walking-five-mil_1517263.png) > [My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/my-sister-was-an-interested-and-zealous-invalid-during-sixty-five/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16c/mark-twain-22_brands_my-sister-was-an-interested-and-zealous_2491380.png) > [I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-ordinarily-smoke-fifteen-cigars-during-my-five-hours-labours-and-if/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/mark-twain-22_cigar_i-ordinarily-smoke-fifteen-cigars-during_2997308.png) ## Other authors on Five ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/five/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "7 Five Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. 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