1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
Mark Twain – [Precedents]
To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
Mark Twain – [Habit]
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
Mark Twain – [Law and Lawyers]
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain – [Training]
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
Mark Twain – [Irreverence]
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
Mark Twain – [Truth]
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain – [Truth]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain – [Action]
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain – [Prayer]
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
Mark Twain – [Virtue]
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
Mark Twain – [Poetry and Poets]
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
Mark Twain – [Nature]
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain – [Alcohol and Alcoholism]
We are all alike, on the inside.
Mark Twain – [Equality]
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Mark Twain – [Family]
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Mark Twain – [Conformity]
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Mark Twain – [Law and Lawyers]
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
Mark Twain – [Babies]
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
Mark Twain – [Knowledge]
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain – [Government]
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