Quotes from Mark Twain
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.
- 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