Quotes by Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
