Quotes
Quotes - Twain
What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
