Quotes
Quotes - Twain
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a manâthe biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Be good and you will be lonely.
Be good and you will be lonely.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
