60+ Best Inspiring Mark Twain Quotes

November 1st, 2017   |   Updated on February 15th, 2022

1. “If You Tell The Truth, You Don’t Have To Remember Anything..”-Mark Twain

 

2. “Good Friends, Good Books, And A Sleepy Conscience: This Is The Ideal Life.”-Mark Twain

 

3. “Whenever You Find Yourself On The Side Of The Majority, It Is Time To Reform (Or Pause And Reflect).”-Mark Twain

 

4. “The Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over The Man Who Cannot Read.”-Mark Twain

5. “Never Put Off Till Tomorrow What May Be Done Day After Tomorrow Just As Well.”-Mark Twain

 

6. “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”-Mark Twain

 

7. “A Book Which People Praise And Don’t Read.”-Mark Twain

 

8. “I Have Never Let My Schooling Interfere With My Education.”-Mark Twain

 

9. “The Fear Of Death Follows From The Fear Of Life. A Man Who Lives Fully Is Prepared To Die At Any Time.”-Mark Twain

 

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10. “A Lie Can Travel Half Way Around The World While The Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes.”-Mark Twain

 

11. “Never Tell The Truth To People Who Are Not Worthy Of It.”-Mark Twain

12. “Be Careful About Reading Health Books. Some Fine Day You’ll Die Of A Misprint.”-Markus Herz

 

13. “It’s The Friends You Can Call Up At 4 A.m. That Matter.”-Marlene Dietrich

 

14. “We have the best government that money can buy.”-Mark Twain

 

15. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”-Mark Twain

 

16. “In A Good Bookroom You Feel In Some Mysterious Way That You Are Absorbing The Wisdom Contained In All The Books Through Your Skin, Without Even Opening Them.”-Mark Twain

17. “Substitute ‘damn’ Every Time You’re Inclined To Write ‘very;’ Your Editor Will Delete It And The Writing Will Be Just As It Should Be.”-Mark Twain

 

18. “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”-Mark Twain

 

19. “There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”-Mark Twain

 

20. “Don’t Go Around Saying The World Owes You A Living. The World Owes You Nothing. It Was Here First.”-Mark Twain

 

21. “I Did Not Attend His Funeral, But I Sent A Nice Letter Saying I Approved Of It.”-Mark Twain

 

22. “God Created War So That Americans Would Learn Geography.”-Mark Twain

23. “I Was Gratified To Be Able To Answer Promptly, And I Did. I Said I Didn’t Know.”-Mark Twain

 

24. “Never Allow Someone To Be Your Priority While Allowing Yourself To Be Their Option.”-Mark Twain

 

25. “But Who Prays For Satan? Who, In Eighteen Centuries, Has Had The Common Humanity To Pray For The One Sinner That Needed It Most?”-Mark Twain

 

26. “The Difference Between The Almost Right Word And The Right Word Is Really A Large Matter. €™tis The Difference Between The Lightning Bug And The Lightning.”-Mark Twain

 

27. “Loyalty  To Country Always. Loyalty To Government, When It Deserves It.”-Mark Twain

 

28. “Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction, But It Is Because Fiction Is Obliged To Stick To Possibilities; Truth Isn’t.”-Mark Twain

 

29. “Wrinkles Should Merely Indicate Where The Smiles Have Been.”-Mark Twain

 

30. “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”-Mark Twain

 

31. “I Do Not Fear Death. I Had Been Dead For Billions And Billions Of Years Before I Was Born, And Had Not Suffered The Slightest Inconvenience From It.”-Mark Twain

 

32. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”-Mark Twain

 

33. “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”-Mark Twain

 

34. “Books Are For People Who Wish They Were Somewhere Else.”-Mark Twain

 

35. “What Would Men Be Without Women? Scarce, Sir…Mighty Scarce.”-Mark Twain

 

36. “Sanity And Happiness Are An Impossible Combination.”-Mark Twain

37. “When I Was A Boy Of 14, My Father Was So Ignorant I Could Hardly Stand To Have The Old Man Around. But When I Got To Be 21, I Was Astonished At How Much The Old Man Had Learned In Seven Years.”-Mark Twain

 

38. “Don’t Part With Your Illusions. When They Are Gone You May Still Exist, But You Have Ceased To Live.”-Mark Twain

39. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”-Mark Twain

 

40. “Clothes Make The Man. Naked People Have Little Or No Influence On Society.”-Mark Twain

41. “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”-Mark Twain

 

42. “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”-Mark Twain

 

43. “You Can’t Depend On Your Eyes When Your Imagination Is Out Of Focus.”-Mark Twain

 

44. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”-Mark Twain

 

45. “Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”-Mark Twain

 

46. “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”-Mark Twain

 

47. “If You Pick Up A Starving Dog And Make Him Prosperous He Will Not Bite You. This Is The Principal Difference Between A Dog And Man.”-Mark Twain

 

48. “Travel Is Fatal To Prejudice, Bigotry, And Narrow-mindedness, And Many Of Our People Need It Sorely On These Accounts. Broad, Wholesome, Charitable Views Of Men And Things Cannot Be Acquired By Vegetating In One Little Corner Of The Earth All One’s Lifetime.”-Mark Twain

 

49. “Always Do What Is Right. It Will Gratify Half Of Mankind And Astound The Other.”-Mark Twain

 

50. “If You Don’t Read The Newspaper, You’re Uninformed. If You Read The Newspaper, You’re Mis-informed.”-Mark Twain

 

51. “Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”-Mark Twain

 

52. “The Trouble Is Not In Dying For A Friend, But In Finding A Friend Worth Dying For.”-Mark Twain

53. “Everyone Is A Moon, And Has A Dark Side Which He Never Shows To Anybody.”-Mark Twain

54. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”-Mark Twain

 

55. “Courage Is Resistance To Fear, Mastery Of Fear – Not Absence Of Fear.”-Mark Twain

 

56. “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”-Mark Twain

 

57. “Kindness Is A Language Which The Deaf Can Hear And The Blind Can See.”-Mark Twain

 

58. “It’s Not The Size Of The Dog In The Fight, It’s The Size Of The Fight In The Dog.”-Mark Twain

 

59. “I’ve Lived Through Some Terrible Things In My Life, Some Of Which Actually Happened.”-Mark Twain

 

60. “The Best Way To Cheer Yourself Is To Try To Cheer Someone Else Up.”-Mark Twain

61. “Education: The Path From Cocky Ignorance To Miserable Uncertainty.”-Mark Twain

62. “Name The Greatest Of All Inventors. Accident.”-Mark Twain

 

63. “You Believe In A Book That Has Talking Animals, Wizards, Witches, Demons, Sticks Turning Into Snakes, Burning Bushes, Food Falling From The Sky, People Walking On Water, And All Sorts Of Magical, Absurd And Primitive Stories, And You Say That We Are The Ones That Need Help?”-Mark Twain

 

64. “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”-Mark Twain

 

65. “He Was The Crazy One Who Had Painted Himself Black And Defeated The World.”

 

66. “She Was The Book Thief Without The Words.”

 

66. “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.”-Mark Twain

 

67. “A sMall But Noteworthy Note. I’ve Seen So Many Young Men Over The Years Who Think They’re Running At Other Young Men. They Are Not. They Are Running At Me.”-Markus Zusak

 

68. “The Easy Confidence With Which I Know Another Man’s Religion Is Folly Teaches Me To Suspect That My Own Is Also.”-Mark Twain