Best Mark Twain Quotes – Author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain is the pet name of super famous American writer, humorist, and entrepreneur, Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was one of the most popular and known as the greatest humorist in the united states. He authored famous novels such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In this article, we have curated some famous quotes by Mark Twain. It will help you to get an idea about his humor and thinking. So, without further ado let’s get into it.
List of Best Mark Twain Quotes
1. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
2. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain
3. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
4. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain
5. “′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”
― Mark Twain
6. “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain
7. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain
8. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
9. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
10. “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain
11. “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain
12. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain
13. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain
14. “Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain
15. “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain
16. “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain
17. “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain
18. “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain
19. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain
20. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain
21. “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
― Mark Twain
22. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
― Mark Twain
23. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain
24. “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain
25. “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain
26. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain
27. “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain
28. “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain
29. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain
30. “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain
31. “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain
32. “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain
33. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain
34. “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain
35. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain
36. “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain
37. “I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain
38. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain
39. “The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain
40. “Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
― Mark Twain
41. “Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain
42. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain
43. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
― Mark Twain
44. “The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
― Mark Twain
45. “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain
46. “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain
47. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain
48. “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain
49. “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
― Mark Twain
50. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain
51. “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain
52. “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain
53. “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
― Mark Twain
54. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain
55. “Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain
56. “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain
57. “Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain
58. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain
59. “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
― Mark Twain
60. “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
― Mark Twain
61. “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
― Mark Twain
62. “Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
― Mark Twain
63. “I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”
― Mark Twain
64. “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
― Mark Twain
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Sourabh Sharma is a hobbyist book reader, Entrepreneur, and a literature student at Delhi University. A blog writer by day and a book reader by night, he is oathed to discuss himself in a third person but can be persuaded to do so from time to time.
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