541 Quotations by Mark Twain
- 1. 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

- 2. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minut ...

- 3. A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table ...

- 4. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

- 5. A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

- 6. A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the l ...

- 7. A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversati ...

- 8. A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

- 9. A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, other ...

- 10. A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house ...

- 11. A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

- 12. A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder ...

- 13. A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

- 14. A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

- 15. A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are t ...

- 16. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

- 17. A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

- 18. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

- 19. A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

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

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