Mark Twain Quotes on Life, Travel, Politics, Education, Truth and Love

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Courage is not an absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Your true pilot cares nothing about anything on earth but the river, and his pride in his occupation surpasses the pride of kings.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you’re interrupting.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.