Quotes By Mark Twain

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.

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

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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.

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

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

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

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.