Horse Will Bite

A Small Collection of Quotes by Legendary Writer Mark Twain

Mark Twain is perhaps the most famous American novelist. Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Mark Twain died in 1910 at the age of 74.

Mark Twain is well-known for his novels “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884) and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876).

Twain was a well-regarded writer and humorist and is very often quoted. We have arranged several of his more famous quotations for your enjoyment.

The Mark Twain Quotes (click here for more)

“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Carlyle said, “A lie cannot live”; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

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

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence — and then success is sure.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

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.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment– but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)

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 of them.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you’re busy interrupting.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler–and less trouble.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon.

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others–and less trouble. – speech, 1906

It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain Literature: Huckleberry Finn Australia

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