Quotes By Mark Twain

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

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

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.