Mark Twain
189 quotations
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Say the report is exaggerated.
To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.