Quotes from Mark Twain
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.
— Mark Twain
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
— Mark Twain
When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
— Mark Twain
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
— Mark Twain
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
— Mark Twain
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
— Mark Twain
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.
— Mark Twain
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
— Mark Twain
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
— Mark Twain
Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
— Mark Twain
Kindness is a language heard by deaf men and felt by blind men.
— Mark Twain
A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.
— Mark Twain