Quotes from Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life--hence it is a valuable possession to him.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain't a minute to lose. They're after us!

Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him. So he played with him every time he got a chance. Huckleberry

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.

What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient

Açl?ktan ölmekte olan bir köpeÄŸi al?p rahata kavuÅŸturursan?z, sizi ?s?rmaz. Ä°ÅŸte insanla köpek aras?ndaki temel fark budur.

We must take things as we find them in this world.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Man is the reasoning animal. Such is the claim.

He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.

The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations....

The word Palestine always brought to my mind a vague suggestion of a country as large as the United States. I do not know why, but such was the case. I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history.