Quotes By Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

The secret to success is to make your vocation your vacation.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at the same time.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.