Quotes By Mark Twain
Writer And Humorist
Mark Twain
Nov 30, 1835 - Apr 21, 1910
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to probability, and truth ain't.
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
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