Mark Twain Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

326 Famous Quotes by Mark Twain
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Books Quotes
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Books Quotes
“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Dreams Quotes
“I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again”
Joy Quotes
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see”
Kindness Quotes
“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”
Learning Quotes
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody”
Mankind Quotes
“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Motivation Quotes
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
Needs Quotes
“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay”
Writing Quotes
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
Absence Quotes
“Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.”
Accidents Quotes
“It is easier to stay out than get out.”
Achievement Quotes
“I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again”
Achievement Quotes
“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Advertising Quotes
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
Age Quotes
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
Ambition Quotes
“We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.”
America and americans Quotes
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.”
America and americans Quotes
“When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.”
Anger Quotes
“We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that”
Approval Quotes
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Approval Quotes
“A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval”
Approval Quotes
“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
Arrogance Quotes
“The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting”
Babies Quotes