Quotes from Mark Twain
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
— Mark Twain
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
— Mark Twain
Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.
— Mark Twain
You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.
— Mark Twain
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
— Mark Twain
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
— Mark Twain
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
— Mark Twain
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.
— Mark Twain
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
— Mark Twain
It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.
— Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
— Mark Twain
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
— Mark Twain