Mark Twain Quotations

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.