Source: The Mysterious Stranger
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Famous Mark Twain Quotes
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.”
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
Source: 10 Books in 1
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”
Source: Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
“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
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
Source: The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man
“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist