Category: Mark Twain

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes

‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education