Quotes from Mark Twain

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Kindness is a language heard by deaf men and felt by blind men.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!