Quotes By Mark Twain

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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.

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

The secret of making progress is to get started.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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

It is easier to stay out than get out.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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.

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

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.