Mark Twain Quotes

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented—which was human liberty.

A man is always better than his printed opinions.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

To be good is to be noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream — a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought — a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

The book of nature tells us distinctly that God cares not a rap for us—nor for any living creature.

إذا وجدت نفسك مع الأغلبية، فقد آن الأوان للتغيير.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.

At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.