Sayings and Quotes By Mark Twain


It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
Mark Twain

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
MARK TWAIN, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain, speech, September 23, 1907

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain, Christian Science (1907)

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Mark Twain, Essay on William Dean Howells (1906)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear
Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

It is easier to stay out than get out.
Mark Twain

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop
Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain

We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
Mark Twain

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Mark Twain

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore
Mark Twain

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Mark Twain

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain

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

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

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