Way Quotes by Mark Twain

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

— Mark Twain

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

— Mark Twain

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

— Mark Twain

There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

— Mark Twain

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

— Mark Twain

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

— Mark Twain

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

— Mark Twain

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

— Mark Twain

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

— Mark Twain

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

— Mark Twain

I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They…

— Mark Twain

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

— Mark Twain

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it…

— Mark Twain

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

— Mark Twain

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...

— Mark Twain

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

— Mark Twain

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in…

— Mark Twain

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it,…

— Mark Twain

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody…

— Mark Twain

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as…

— Mark Twain

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God,…

— Mark Twain

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do…

— Mark Twain

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks…

— Mark Twain

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man…

— Mark Twain

As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all…

— Mark Twain

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently…

— Mark Twain

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the…

— Mark Twain

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just…

— Mark Twain

It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just…

— Mark Twain

The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to…

— Mark Twain

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person…

— Mark Twain

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically…

— Mark Twain

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

— Mark Twain

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

— Mark Twain

There isn't any way to libel the human race.

— Mark Twain

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

— Mark Twain

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

— Mark Twain

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

— Mark Twain

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

— Mark Twain

School gets in the way of my learning.

— Mark Twain