Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 20)

“Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”

“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”

“You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.”

“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

“Humor is tragedy plus time.”

“Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.”

“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”

“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”

“Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects."”

“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.”

“What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”

“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”

“Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.”

“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”

“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

“One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.”