All Mark Twain Quotes
- The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous. Best
- Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all… All
- Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living Best
- The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice All
- Do your duty today and repent tomorrow Duty
- By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field Correspondent
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Good
- Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as… Always Delightful
- Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. Acquirement
- Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. Example
- History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes Best
- Be good and you will be lonesome Good
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time Any
- Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over… Belt
- Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. Custom
- Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories Among
- Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. Become Great
- The real yellow peril: Gold Gold
- New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them… Accepted
- The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme Past
- Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it Commendable
- Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million Eyes
- Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon Few
- There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence Many
- I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and… All