Mark Twain Quotes

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.