Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 28)

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

“Be good and you will be lonesome.”

“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”

“Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.”

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”

“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”

“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”

“Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.”

“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”

“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”

“Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always”