Quotes from Mark Twain
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
- Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
- Mark Twain
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
- Mark Twain
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
- Mark Twain
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
- Mark Twain
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
- Mark Twain
I can last two months on a good compliment.
- Mark Twain
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
- Mark Twain
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
- Mark Twain
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
- Mark Twain