Quotes from Mark Twain
Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.
- Mark Twain
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.
- Mark Twain
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.
- Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
- Mark Twain
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
- Mark Twain
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
- Mark Twain
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
- Mark Twain
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
- Mark Twain
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain