Mark Twain Quotes

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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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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If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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We are all beggars, each in his own way.

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