Famous Quotes

Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

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

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

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well."

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."

"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."