All Mark Twain Quotes
- More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking. Cigar
- Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed. Inspirational
- I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff… California
- Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken. Believe
- What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we… Brevity
- The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. Bold
- Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Kindly
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner… American
- I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. Forced
- Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive. Arrive
- You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda. Bermuda
- A man may have no bad habits and have worse Bad
- I am not an economist. I am an honest man! Economist
- Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists All
- It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right Always Right
- 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