
Quotes by Mark Twain
27 quotes by Mark Twain


Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Quote by Mark Twain about sex, world, man

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Quote by Mark Twain about people, influence, clothes, society, man


A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Quote by Mark Twain about people, man

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Quote by Mark Twain about experience, man

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Quote by Mark Twain about people, rightness, time, man


All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Quote by Mark Twain about succes, ignorance, need, life, contentment

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Quote by Mark Twain about character, rest, rightness, people

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Quote by Mark Twain about anger


Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Quote by Mark Twain about books, death, contentment


Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Quote by Mark Twain about opinion, clothes, man


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Quote by Mark Twain about courage, fear


Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Quote by Mark Twain about fear, death, things, contentment

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Quote by Mark Twain about world, nothing, contentment