Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 19)

“I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.”

“It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.”

“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”

“I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.”

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.”

“He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.”

“How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.”

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”

“Man - a figment of God's imagination.”

“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.”

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.”

“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”

“Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.”

“Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.”

“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.”