Quotes by Mark Twain

“I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.”

“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”

“There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didnt know.”

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

“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.”

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”

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

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“Adam was but humanthis explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have...”

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”