Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 22)

“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”

“She was not quite what you would call refined.
She was not quite what you would call unrefined.
She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.”

“The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.”

“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”

“The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.”

“If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.”

“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”

“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”

“Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.”

“H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”

“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”

“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”

“Every person is a book, each year a chapter”

“It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.”

“Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.”

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”

“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.”