Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 23)

“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.”

“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”

“I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.”

“Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.”

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”

“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”

“There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature.”

“I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.”

“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”

“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”

“Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.”