Mark Twain Quotes
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain
American writer
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain
American writer
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark Twain
American writer
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
American writer
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
American writer
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain
American writer
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark Twain
American writer
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain
American writer
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
American writer
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
American writer
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
American writer
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain
American writer
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
American writer
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain
American writer

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
American writer
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain
American writer
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
American writer
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Mark Twain
American writer
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain
American writer
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
American writer
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