The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
Mark Twain
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter .
Mark Twain
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
Mark Twain
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
Mark Twain
Words in haste do friendships waste.
Mark Twain
It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make horse races.
Mark Twain
It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain
Friendship Quotes
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
Mark Twain
Tell the truth or trump -- but get the trick.
Mark Twain
In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, 'one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.'
Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain
Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
Mark Twain
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
Mark Twain
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.