Famous Quotes / Mark Twain
541 Quotations by Mark Twain
- 321. Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.
- 322. Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside ...
- 323. People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
- 324. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find ...
- 325. Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
- 326. Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
- 327. Praise is well; compliment is well. But affection: that is the last and most precious reward that an ...
- 328. Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to le ...
- 329. Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed
- 330. Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
- 331. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
- 332. Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
- 333. Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
- 334. Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
- 335. Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
- 336. Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it thousands of times.
- 337. Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- 338. Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was cert ...
- 339. Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
- 340. Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and ...