Quotes from Mark Twain
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
- Mark Twain
I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.
- Mark Twain
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
- Mark Twain
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
- Mark Twain
It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
- Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
- Mark Twain
We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
- Mark Twain
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- Mark Twain
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
- Mark Twain
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.
- Mark Twain
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain