Quotes from Mark Twain

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.