"Why shoudn't truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities." - Famous Quotes by American Writer Mark Twain
Mark Twain is perhaps the most famous American author (Buy Mark Twain Books). Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Clemens was born in 1835. Twain died April 1910 in Redding, Connecticut.
Twain is perhaps most famous for his books "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884).
Twain was a gifted writer and humorist and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected here a collection of his most famous quotations for your pleasure.
The Famous Mark Twain Quotations (more):
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
Golf is a good walk, ruined.
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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