All Mark Twain Quotes
- There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in… Affect
- The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave,… Application
- I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education. Education
- Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. Education
- But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people. All
- I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are… Argument
- If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear. Ear
- An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it. Chance
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Ambition
- The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had… Accurately
- There is no security in life, only opportunity. Inspirational
- When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how… Amazed
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Books
- I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. Anti
- Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. Animal
- Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war. Been
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing… Attacked
- I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. Ignorance
- We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches… All
- We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. Familiar
- Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days… Ancient
- New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug… Annual
- A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains,… Annual
- His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine. Funny
- Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. All