Quotes from Mark Twain

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Faith is believing things you know aint true

Kindness is a language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

Kindness is a Language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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

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

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore .Dream. Discover.

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

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

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

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.