Quotes from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite but they all worship money.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth is not.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

If you dont read the newspaper, youre uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, youre misinformed.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world and never will.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

The difference between truth and fiction is that the latter must always be credible in order to work.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luckgood or badare entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

"In God We Trust." It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased: it always sounds well In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true. And in a measure it is true half the nation trusts in Him. That half has decided it.

None but the dead have free speech.

God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

I started out alone to seek adventures. You don't really have to seek themthat is nothing but a phrasethey come to you.

The self-taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers;

Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.

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 creature that cannot.

I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.