Best Mark Twain Quotes

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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 of them.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.