All Mark Twain Quotes
- 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
- Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows Any
- Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths Funny
- Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation. Constant
- Don't dream your life, but live your dream Dream
- The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I… Affair
- There is nothing more frustrating than a good example. Example
- I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the… Cents
- Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change… All
- Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right. Country
- There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. Funny
- The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Arrogance
- An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. Ecstasy
- To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Everything Looks
- The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you. Dearer
- It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that… American