“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”
Source: Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections
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Famous Mark Twain Quotes
“No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition
Source: Mark Twain's Speeches
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.”
“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.”
“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.”
“Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.”
Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.”
“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.”
“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
“The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.”
Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)
“Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.”
Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories
“Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”
“We are all alike, on the inside.”
Source: Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events
“To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.”
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.”
Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography
“Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.”
“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“He is now rising from affluence to poverty.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
Source: Great Speeches by Mark Twain
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)