Mark Twain Quotes

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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

The Public is merely a multiplied ‘me.’

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.