Quotes by Mark Twain

About Mark Twain:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Mark Twain

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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

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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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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.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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

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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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Author Bio

  • NameMark Twain
  • DescriptionAmerican author and humorist
  • AliasesSamuel Langhorne Clemens; Samuel Clemens
  • BornNovember 30, 1835
  • DiedApril 21, 1910
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Humorist; Novelist; Children's Writer; Autobiographer
  • WorksAdventures Of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer