Quotes from Mark Twain
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
- Mark Twain
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
- Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain
I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
- Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
- Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
- Mark Twain
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
- Mark Twain
Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
- Mark Twain
Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
- Mark Twain