“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: 381 https://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ItalTravLit/id/22790<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Mark Twain / Quotes / Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Speech to the Savage Club, 9 June 1899, in Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, pp. 277–278 http://books.google.com/books?id=7etXZ5Q17ngC&pg=PA277. (Possibly fabricated from a paraphrase in Aaron Watson, The Savage Club: a Medley of History, Anecdote, and Reminiscence (1907), pp. 126–129 http://books.google.com/books?id=B1cuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63)
“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”
Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Mark Twain and I by Opie Read
“There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
It seems likely that the attribution to Twain is apocryphal. It is not listed as authentic on Twainquotes http://twainquotes.com/, and is not listed at all in either R. Ken Ramussen's The Quotable Mark Twain (1998) or David W. Barber's Quotable Twain (2002) <br class="br">Misattributed
