Quotes from Mark Twain
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.
- Mark Twain
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
- Mark Twain
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
- Mark Twain
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .
- Mark Twain
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.
- Mark Twain
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
- Mark Twain
Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.
- Mark Twain
God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.
- Mark Twain
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
- Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
- Mark Twain
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
- Mark Twain
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
- Mark Twain