Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Quotes

• Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.

• Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

• I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

• Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

• Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

• We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

• Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

• The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

• When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

• Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please

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

• How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

• If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.

• "All say, 'How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

• "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

• "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

• "When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

• The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

• Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.