Mark Twain Quotes
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
By : Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
By : Mark Twain
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
By : Mark Twain
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
By : Mark Twain
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
By : Mark Twain
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
By : Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
By : Mark Twain
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
By : Mark Twain
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
By : Mark Twain
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
By : Mark Twain
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
By : Mark Twain
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
By : Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
By : Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
By : Mark Twain
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
By : Mark Twain
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
By : Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
By : Mark Twain
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
By : Mark Twain