All Mark Twain Quotes
- For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment Experiment
- There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing Confidence
- It is your human environment that makes climate Climate
- I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human… Christ
- There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an… Apparatus
- Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but… Great
- When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself. Arrives
- Hunger is the handmaid of genius Genius
- Children have but little charity for one another's defects Charity
- Sometimes people do get hurt Get Hurt
- Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection. Beats
- A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them. Cat
- The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo. Banjo
- In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it. Date
- What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Been
- Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. Adults
- There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Bear
- Never tell a lie-except for practice. Except
- Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock… Ago
- But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers. All