Mark Twain
189 quotations
If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
The lack of money is the root of all evils.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.
Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.