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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Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

Mark Twain

Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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Warm summer sun, shine brightly here, Warm Southern wind, blow softly here, Green sod above, lie light, lie light, Good night, dear heart; good night, good night.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

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I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now I have lost Jean. How poor I am, who was once so rich! . . . Jean lies yonder, I sit here; we are st...

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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

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But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts ...

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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

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There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are mo...

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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