Mark Twain Quotes

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Demagogue—a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.

... in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes.