Mark Twain

Ranking: 12th
Biography of Mark Twain
Search Mark Twain's quotes

1 2 3 4 5 Next >>
Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."	Comedy, Honesty
"All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side."	Quotations
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."	God, Emotion
"As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out."	Writing
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written."	Miscellaneous
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written."	Quotations
"But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface."	Food
"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"	Religion
"Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out."	Prayer
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."	Success, Life
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."	Success, Learning
"Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees."	Wisdom
"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."	Education
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."	Fear
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."	Sex
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."	Government, Forgiveness
"Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, "I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent." ... [That's exactly] the case of God and man... God made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, "Be angelic, or I will ill punish you and destroy you." But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one Criminal, and it is not man."	Fear
"God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins."	God
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."	Success, Joy
"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."	Comedy, Honesty
1 2 3 4 5 Next >>

Browse Mark Twain quotes by category:

Age	America	Anger
Animals	Anti-God	Anti-Religion
Books	Change	Comedy
Confidence	Conformity	Courage
Death	Economics	Education
Emotion	Fear	Food
Forgiveness	God	Government
Happiness	Health	Holidays
Honesty	Ignorance	Insults
Joy	Knowledge	Learning
Lies	Life	Love
Luck	Miscellaneous	Money
Patriotism	Prayer	Quotations
Religion	School	Sex
Sleep	Success	Talent
Taxes	Time	War
Wisdom	Work	Writing