Quotes By Mark Twain

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it wouldimprove the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.