Mark Twain Quotes
+1Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
+1The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain
+1There are only two types of speakers in the world. The nervous and Liars.
- Mark Twain
+1Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
- Mark Twain
+1Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
- Mark Twain
+1I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time..
- Mark Twain
+1Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man’s enjoyment of his cigar.
- Mark Twain
+1Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
- Mark Twain
+1If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.
- Mark Twain
+1I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
- Mark Twain
+1Giving up smoking is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times.
- Mark Twain
+1There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- Mark Twain
+1When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
+1Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain
+1My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart a heart so large that everybody’s grief and everybody’s joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
- Mark Twain
+1It 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
+1I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.
- Mark Twain
+1There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
- Mark Twain
+1Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
- Mark Twain
+1To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
- Mark Twain
+1Travel spending could be flat this summer instead of seeing 8 percent increases like we’ve seen in the past.
- Mark Twain
+1Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.
- Mark Twain
+1Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
- Mark Twain
+1The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
- Mark Twain
+1No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
- Mark Twain