“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
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“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: The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.”
“Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.”
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.”
Source: Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)
“Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.”
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World: Easyread Edition
“I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.”
Source: The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time
Source: Following The Equator
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“I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.”
“Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.”
“A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.”
Source: Life as I Find it: Essays, Sketches, and Tales, the Majority of which are Now Published in Book Form for the First Time
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot”
Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man
“Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything”
“All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish”
Source: The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine
“Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness”