All Mark Twain Quotes
- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It… Across
- Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right. Better
- Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human… All
- There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work. Edit
- Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72. Bury
- How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way. Along
- Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all. Advantage
- Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues. Carried
- It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain… Gambling
- The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey! Civilization
- By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved… Age
- I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.… All
- Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness. Billion
- He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all… All
- Make your mark in New York and you are a made man. Made Man
- The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting Arm
- Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration. Clog
- If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? Always Together
- But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just… All
- Comedy keeps the heart sweet. Comedy
- It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog. Dog
- My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian. Bernard
- There are no wild animals until man makes them so. Animal
- We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock. Bird
- Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he… Alive