541 Quotations by Mark Twain
- 21. A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through y ...
- 22. A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday ...
- 23. A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then ...
- 24. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
- 25. A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a bo ...
- 26. A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his s ...
- 27. A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
- 28. A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
- 29. Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
- 30. Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
- 31. Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
- 32. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- 33. All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ...
- 34. All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people ...
- 35. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
- 36. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an oppor ...
- 37. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- 38. Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
- 39. An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large wor ...
- 40. An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing ...
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