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

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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

The two most important days in your life are, the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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

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

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.