Quotes from Mark Twain

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck. Tom, I am not everybody.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.

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