Mark Twain Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

Anyone with a new idea is a crank... until the idea succeeds.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The more I learn about human nature, the more I like my dog.

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.

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

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.