Quotes by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Lived from: 1835 - 1910

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 30 november 1835 Died: 21 april 1910

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  • How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
    Autobiography of Mark Twain (2013) 302
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  • Humor is the greatest blessing of mankind.
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  • Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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  • I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
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  • I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
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  • I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
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  • I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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  • I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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  • I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
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  • I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
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  • I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
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  • I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]
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  • I do not like work even when someone else does it.
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  • I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
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  • I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
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  • I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
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  • I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
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  • I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
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  • I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.
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  • I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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