Be good and you will be lonesome. |
Mark Twain |
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. |
Mark Twain |
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. |
Mark Twain |
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. |
Mark Twain |
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read. |
Mark Twain |
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. |
Mark Twain |
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. |
Mark Twain |
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. |
Mark Twain |
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. |
Mark Twain |
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. |
Mark Twain |
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. |
Mark Twain |
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. |
Mark Twain |
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it. |
Mark Twain |
Man is the only animal that blushes , or needs to. |
Mark Twain |
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. |
Mark Twain |
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. |
Mark Twain |
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. |
Mark Twain |