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Quotes by Mark Twain

29 Total

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful – and much easier.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!

There is nothing as annoying as a good EXAMPLE!!

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

Learning through experience: A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

I seldom saw an opportunity until it had ceased to be.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon.

Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Always do what is right. It will gratify most of the people, and astound the rest.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

A lie can traverse the globe many times before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.