All Mark Twain Quotes
- Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a… Absolutely
- A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable… Admiral
- It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. Acquire
- The secret of making progress is to get started. Get Started
- To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich. Additional
- Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad. All
- I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I… Been
- I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so… Any
- Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value. Better
- Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book… Asset
- Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased. Awake
- Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and… Age
- Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it. All
- Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else… Anybody
- The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as… Bad
- In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which… America
- It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do. Bible
- If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary Answer
- All emotion is involuntary when genuine. All
- The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. Absolutely