Quotes from Mark Twain
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.
- Mark Twain
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
- Mark Twain
History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.
- Mark Twain
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
- Mark Twain
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness.
- Mark Twain
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."
- Mark Twain
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
- Mark Twain
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
- Mark Twain
Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything
- Mark Twain
The best of all lost arts is honesty.
- Mark Twain
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
- Mark Twain
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
- Mark Twain