TWAIN2

I am different from Washington; I have a higher grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.

Let us not be too particular: it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love it is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old... You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Modesty died when clothes were born.