Quotes from Mark Twain

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.