Mark Twain Quotes

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

A crime preserved in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Within the last quarter of a century, in America, several sects of curers have appeared under various names and have done notable things in the way of healing ailments without the use of medicines. There are the Mind Cure, the Faith Cure, the Prayer Cure, the Mental Science Cure, and the Christian-Science Cure; and apparently they all do their miracles with the same old, powerful instrument—the patient's imagination. Differing names, but no difference in the process. But they do not give that instrument the credit; each sect claims that its way differs from the ways of the others.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said enough.

حينما نتأمل الجنس البشري نشعر بأنه من المؤسف ان نوح استطاع اللحاق بسفينته و لم يغرقه الطوفان

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.