| Quotes by Mark Twain |
| "The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner." "In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer." "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." "Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired." "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." "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." "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." "The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little." "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." "In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language." "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided." "Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." |