Mark Twain Quotes
+1A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- Mark Twain
+1Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
- Mark Twain
+1I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
- Mark Twain
+1It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
- Mark Twain
+1You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
+1I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
- Mark Twain
+1Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
- Mark Twain
+1It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
- Mark Twain
+1Man a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
- Mark Twain
+1A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
- Mark Twain
+1To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
- Mark Twain
+1The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
- Mark Twain
+1I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won’t.
- Mark Twain
+1One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain
+1Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
- Mark Twain
+1A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
+1Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
- Mark Twain
+1Honesty is the best policy when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
+1Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
- Mark Twain
+1Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
- Mark Twain
+1Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
- Mark Twain
+1If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
+1Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
- Mark Twain
+1I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain
+1The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain