All Mark Twain Quotes
- It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… Burden
- Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Accepted
- When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible… Any
- If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now… Believe
- Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. Best
- The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo. Creator
- ...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. Contact
- The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the… Abroad
- There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. Careless
- It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in… Almighty
- Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have… All
- I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the… Alone
- Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said. Always Tell
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,… Any
- I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the… All
- No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. Gentleman
- Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar… Accurate
- We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never… Adjusted
- I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling… Advantage
- All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out. All
- Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. Familiar
- Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Fiction
- When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you… Applied
- My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody… All
- There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one? Been