Mark Twain Quotes

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
-Mark Twain in Eyes quotes.

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
-Mark Twain in Language quotes.

"All generalizations are false, including this one."
-Mark Twain

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
-Mark Twain

"We all have thoughts that would shame the devil."
-Mark Twain in Shame quotes.

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - and then success is sure."
-Mark Twain in Confidence quotes.

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
-Mark Twain in Parents quotes.

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
-Mark Twain in Imagination quotes.

"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it."
-Mark Twain

"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."
-Mark Twain in Honesty quotes.

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
-Mark Twain

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
-Mark Twain in Influence quotes.

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
-Mark Twain in Courage quotes.

"At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
-Mark Twain in Beginning quotes.

"I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me."
-Mark Twain

"'Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
-Mark Twain

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
-Mark Twain

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."
-Mark Twain in Mankind quotes.

"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption."
-Mark Twain in Opinions quotes.

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
-Mark Twain in Pain quotes.

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
-Mark Twain in Congress quotes.

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

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
-Mark Twain in Time quotes.

"A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
-Mark Twain

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
-Mark Twain in Life quotes.

"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."
-Mark Twain in Difficulty quotes.

"I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots."
-Mark Twain