Mark Twain Quotations And Sayings

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“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
– Mark Twain

“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
– Mark Twain

“Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don’t know what happened on either occasion.”
– Mark Twain

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”
– Mark Twain

“Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”
– Mark Twain

“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
– Mark Twain

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.”
– Mark Twain

“No mans life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”
– Mark Twain

“Man was made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired.”
– Mark Twain

“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive … but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”
– Mark Twain

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
– Mark Twain

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
– Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
– Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– Mark Twain

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
– Mark Twain

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
– Mark Twain

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
– Mark Twain

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
– Mark Twain

“Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.”
– Mark Twain

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
– Mark Twain

“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.”
– Mark Twain

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
– Mark Twain

“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.”
– Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
– Mark Twain

“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.”
– Mark Twain

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

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
– Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
– Mark Twain

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