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

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

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

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

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights… sexual intercourse!… His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

The more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.