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
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not… — 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
“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A lie can travel half-way around the world, while the truth is still putting on it's shoes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Listen — and do not doubt me, for I shall speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I am no more an earl’s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else. — 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
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — 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
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Mark Twain. "The truth should never be permitted to stand in the way of a good story.” — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Image
