Mark Twain Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

326 Famous Quotes by Mark Twain
“History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes”
History Quotes
“Hunger is the handmaid of genius”
Hunger Quotes
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
Ignorance Quotes
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
Illusion Quotes
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Imagination Quotes
“It is wiser to find out than to suppose”
Intelligence Quotes
“I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.”
Irony Quotes
“True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god”
Irreverence Quotes
“Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense”
Irreverence Quotes
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it”
Judgement Quotes
“Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.”
Justification Quotes
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read”
Kindness Quotes
“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
Knowledge Quotes
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Laughter Quotes
“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
Law and lawyers Quotes
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them”
Libraries Quotes
“Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.”
Logic Quotes
“It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right”
Maxim Quotes
“Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired”
Men and women Quotes
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
Mind Quotes
“It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare”
Morality Quotes
“Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"”
Necessity Quotes
“Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled”
Optimism Quotes
“It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right”
Optimism Quotes
“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”
Optimism Quotes