Quotes by Mark Twain

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.

It isnt so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that arent so.

Man - a creature made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.

In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Make it a point to do something every day that you dont want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isnt. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

In prayer we call ourselves worms of the dust but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.