Mark Twain Quotes

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to 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.

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I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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Architects cannot teach nature anything.

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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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