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“I can live two months on a good compliment.” – Well-Known Quotations by Author Mark Twain

Mark Twain is one of the most famous American writers (Buy Mark Twain Books). Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Twain died April 21, 1910 at the age of 74 in Connecticut.

Mark Twain is perhaps most well-known for his books “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.

Twain was a well-regarded writer and is often quoted in print and in speeches. We have collected a collection of his most famous quotations for your reading pleasure.

And Now The Mark Twain Quotes …

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Golf is a good walk, ruined.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, — which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and — watch that basket.

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all — the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

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