Mark Twain quotes

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain

Religion had its share in the changes of civilization and national character, of course. What
share? The lion's.
Mark Twain

To be good is to be noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain

Pessimist: the optimist who didn't arrive.
Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain

A nation is only an individual multiplied.
Mark Twain

What then is the true gospel of consistency? Change.
Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the
old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had
learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the
sons of men.
Mark Twain

It is better to support schools than jails.
Mark Twain

It seems to me that just in the ratio that our newspapers increase, our morals decay.
Mark Twain

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life
which would kill anybody else.
Mark Twain

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like,
and do what you'd druther not.
Mark Twain

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain

The Christian Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same; but the medical practice
changes.
Mark Twain

Some people lie when they tell the truth. I tell the truth lying.
Mark Twain

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain

To my mind, that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble
simplicity.
Mark Twain

I have seen all the foreign countries I want to see except heaven and hell, and I have only a
vague curiosity as concerns one of those.
Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
Mark Twain

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."
Mark Twain

A classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is
less savage than the other savages.
Mark Twain

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.
Mark Twain

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape
hanging?
Mark Twain

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule
for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain

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