Quotes from Mark Twain
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
- Mark Twain
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
- Mark Twain
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
- Mark Twain
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
- Mark Twain
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
- Mark Twain
The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.
- Mark Twain
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
- Mark Twain
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
- Mark Twain
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
- Mark Twain
God cures and the doctor sends the bill.
- Mark Twain
In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
- Mark Twain