Quotes by Mark Twain

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

- Mark Twain

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.

- Mark Twain

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

- Mark Twain

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

- Mark Twain

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

- Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

- Mark Twain

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

- Mark Twain

Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.

- Mark Twain

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

- Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

- Mark Twain

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

- Mark Twain

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.

- Mark Twain

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

- Mark Twain

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

- Mark Twain

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

- Mark Twain

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

- Mark Twain

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

- Mark Twain

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

- Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

- Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

- Mark Twain

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

- Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

- Mark Twain