Quotes from Mark Twain

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

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

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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 was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.