Quotes from Mark Twain
It is better to give than receive- especially advice.
- Mark Twain
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
- Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
- Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
- Mark Twain
Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house
- Mark Twain
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
- Mark Twain
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.
- Mark Twain
Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.
- Mark Twain
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.
- Mark Twain
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain