An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who… — 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
“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the… — 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
“A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.” — 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
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
I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they… — 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
