530+ Famous & Inspiration Mark Twain Quotes About Love, Education & Politics

Mark Twain Quotes About Love

1. “Love is the thing that makes the ride worthwhile.”
2. “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing.”
3. “Love is as much a part of life as living.”
4. “Love wouldn’t be blind if people would just stop loving or start seeing.”
5. “Love is the blind man’s guide.”
6. “Love is a terrible thing, but it must not be avoided.”
7. “Heartbreak and the subsequent doom or heartburn and the subsequent subsidence did not seem to me to constitute being in love.”
8. “The only way out of here is through.”
9. “It takes two to make a bargain, and it takes two to prove that one has made one.”
10. “Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
11. “A man is not old because he has lived long, but the reverse.”
12. “It’s hard to be serious about a world that laughs at you for being serious.”
13. “I never forget a face, but in your case, I’ve already given you a heart.”
14. “One of the greatest delights of childhood is the unexpected visit of someone who brings love with him.”
15. “It is a very difficult thing to be sincere when one is in love.”
16. “Let me tell you about a foolish thing that happened to me once.”
17. “You can do everything right up to the point where you do wrong.”
18. “The one safe principle in life is that there’s nothing so bad that some people won’t do it for money.”
19. “Be kind with your heart, and gentle with your soul, or they will become hard, bitter things incapable of love.”
20. “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
21. “When a lot of people love you, it is hard to love them all back.”
22. “Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.”
23. “It takes a long time to get tender from loneliness but only a second to find your limits.”
24. “You can’t be in love and know the difference.”
25. “The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”
26. “Love is not only the greatest thing in the world but the worst.”
27. “Love is a serious business; it requires thought and concentration.”
28. “There is no sin except stupidity, and being indifferent to one’s sins is just as stupid as committing them.”

Inspirational Mark Twain Quotes

1. “Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
2. “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing about.”
3. “Don’t go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
4. “Love at first sight is the rarest thing in the world.”
5. “Let me tell you about a foolish thing that happened to me once.”
6. “It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.”
7. “In a world that is ever-growing more unkind, it takes deep niceness to be more kind.”
8. “Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like a volcano and then settles into a placid lake.”
9. “At a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
10. “The only things worth knowing maybe those that everybody knows already”
11. “But love is blind.”
12. “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
13. “It’s better to keep your opinion to yourself, and appear stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
14. “The most permanent thing in my life will always be the feeling that there isn’t any permanence.”
15. “A secret is something you tell one other person, but it doesn’t become a secret until you tell two more people.”
16. “It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.”
17. “The art of life is the ability to enjoy quietly.”
18. “To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.”
19. “To be able to hold your peace when you feel like railing is a great accomplishment.”
20. “If you don’t fail now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe.”
21. “It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.”
22. “To know the taste of despair is to serve as an antidote to it.”
23. “In a world that is ever-growing more unkind, it takes deep niceness to be more kind.”
24. “Love is the thing that lasts forever; all else is a fleeting fashion”
25. “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”
26. “Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
27. “The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.”
28. “Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
29. “At a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”

Mark Twain Quotes About Truth

1. “Tell me the truth if you dare, but first allow me to prepare myself to bear it”—Mark Twain
2. “The man who is so cowardly as to allow others to push him around is not only despicable, he’s down there with a whole crowd of people in the lowest caste of mind.”—Mark Twain
3. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”—Mark Twain
4. “When I was a boy of fourteen… the most exciting game in the world was ‘cops and robbers’… Every time you took your gun out of its case, it carried a bullet with it. If you shot any one you were hanged at once, and if there was no one to hang you at once, they would make a special trip for you when they found out who you were. “He said ‘I am a dead man.’ “That was the way to play it. But now there’s no use trying to keep up the old games. Those old games have been played out for more than a generation.”—Mark Twain
5. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”—Mark Twain
6. “The first thing you know, you’re getting so used to everything that you forget how extraordinary it all was when you first began. ‘Twas ever thus, when I was a boy I used to be surprised out of bed in the morning.”—Mark Twain
7. “I never said that anything that was true was interesting, or that anything that was interesting was true. I have gone on record with many other sayings which were never attributed to me.”—Mark Twain
8. “I have been accused of lying for amusement’s sake and truth’s sake.”—Mark Twain
9. “A lie told often enough becomes truth.”—Mark Twain
10. “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”—Mark Twain
11. “The low level of public debate discourages intelligent thought. It’s too safe to be smart, too simple to be thoughtful, and too easy to be witty.”—Mark Twain
12. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”—Mark Twain
13. “The man who is so cowardly as to allow others to push him around is not only despicable, he’s down there with a whole crowd of people in the lowest caste of mind.”—Mark Twain
14. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”—Mark Twain
15. “Truth isn’t for sale. You can’t buy it from anybody.”—Mark Twain
16. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”—Mark Twain
17. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it’s tough to sell.”—Mark Twain
18. “I can live for two months on a good compliment.”—Mark Twain
19. “It’s easier to stay out than get out.”—Mark Twain
20. “Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. Hating will do for the other end of the catalogue.”—Mark Twain
21. “I like golf. It’s a good walk spoiled.”—Mark Twain
22. “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”—Mark Twain
23. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”—Mark Twain
24. “He that can have patience can have what he will” — Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quotes Death

1. Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
2. Death has a tendency to make people careless.
3. Death always uses the best people for his dirty work then throws them away when he is through with them.
4. The fear of death often causes us to live lives that are in actuality far more tragic and pathetic than death itself would be if it were merely accepted as a natural part of life..
5. Death, where is thy sting?
6. Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
7. The man who fears death either has lived a life he regrets or expects to live one..
8. Death takes no bribes and respects no institution.
9. I don’t like life when I find myself in the midst of it; it is much more satisfactory to watch for death from a distance.
10. The worst disease I know is fear of death.
11. The only way to overcome death is to die with a smile upon your face.
12. A little learning is a dangerous thing, but there is nothing so wonderful in the world as ignorance.
13. Death does not prevail against the innocent.
14. I sincerely hope that when I die all my acquaintances will be people who have had only good things to say about me and who will have spared no pains or money in testifying to me their affection..
15. Why should death be forever the enemy of man?
16. Let us not go to war with evil, but kill it wherever we find it.  If we could only see that all the good in the world is hidden behind a mask of evil, we would soon have nothing to fear..
17. The most ferocious animal is usually but a squirrel or a kitten, and beneath that ferocity squats often cowardice as timid as our own.
18. If you don’t make it to heaven for your goodness, you will be admitted for your humor.
19. The death of friendship is caused almost always by the lack of communication.- Mark Twain.
20. Like measles, a person’s dying has now and then some advantages; it lasts a shorter time, for one thing..
21. Let us pity, not scorn, them that suffer; nothing that we have yet learned is so hard for the heart as pity.
22. I have said in my heart that I would rather enjoy one day of youth than spend my life in patching up what is gone.
23. They say we shall meet again; but how or where, Who knows? – Mark Twain.
24. I have never met a man yet who was afraid of dying, and I don’t want to meet one until after I am dead..
25. The fear of death has ruined more lives than death itself..
26. If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
27. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time..
28. I like to speak about myself as little as possible; it is so much more interesting and profitable to speak of others..
29. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education..
30. I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.
31. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed..
32. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus..
33. Why don’t you speak for yourself instead of telling other people what to say?  – Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
34. They were all so eager to be seen that they never thought of the effort it took to do so.”
35. “The best thing in the world for man is woman– next best, religion– worst, death.”

Mark Twain Inspirational Quotes

1. “Many of us think we are experts in some dark and mysterious area because we smoke a pipe, hunt for frogs or grow orchids.”
2. “To my mind, the man who has never made a mistake, never tried anything new, is not worth much – his life is just too easy.”
3. “I would much rather have friends than be famous.”
4. “It often happens that when men cease to struggle they relax and die.”
5. “Success is much more pleasant than failure, but success does not follow failure.”
6. “If you don’t like it, change it; if you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
7. “The well-known truth that two things cannot occupy the same place in our confidence without being equally valuable ‘has comforted men since the world began.’ A historian may be excused for not knowing who said it first or where and when he said it; but an artist should know better.”
8. “We cannot teach what we do not know.”
9. “Before you can get anywhere, you must first decide where you’re going.”
10. “There are two ways of achieving success: one is to fail at everything you do, and the other is to succeed at everything you do.”
11. “The purpose of a writer’s life is to teach others how to live theirs better.”
12. “Persistence and perspiration will tell in the end.”
13. “I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
14. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
15. “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
16. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
17. “It’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
18. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
19. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
20. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
21. “Cultivate only that which you love, and love but little else.”
22. “It’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
23. “I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”
24. “I never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
25. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”
26. “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
27. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
28. “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
29. “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
30. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
31. “About my only real regret is that I wasted so much of life without seeking instruction.”
32. “Three things are to be noticed in the beginning of a thing: its origin, its progress, and its delivery.”
33. “There is no such thing as a good idea unless someone has already had it.”
34. “We must not judge our neighbor too quickly nor condemn him too harshly nor altogether without cause.”
35. “The prime thing in life is to have a boss that you respect and to do your best for him, even if he is wrong.”
36. “After all, everybody must choose for himself; you cannot force a person into the world. Live and let live.”
37. “Go placidly amid the noise and confusion, even though they become temporary, for it won’t last.”
38. “All we are saying is that it takes two days to learn something – as long as it takes two people.”
39. “The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
40. “Perhaps she does not realize that her most glorious achievement is her character – the way she has conducted herself through life, and her determination to grow finer and purer every day of it.”

Famous Mark Twain Quotes

1. “Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.”
2. “And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but the truth in masquerade.”
3. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
4. “The only way to deal with an unfriendly critic is to ignore him or kill him.”
5. “Failure comes from the inability to concentrate with unwavering determination.”
6. “(Stubbornness) isn’t only a failing in the intellect, it’s also a moral weakness.”
7. “Never confuse motion with action.”
8. “I have never seen an unhappy person who was not envied by someone else. The real test of character is its endurance.”
9. “No man can ‘change history’ by trying harder to make it turn out otherwise than it did, at least not without very great loss and damage to himself.”
10. “Henceforth I will take no notice of differences or disputes about words, for there is by far the greatest difference in the things we do and say.”
11. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
12. “If we have no other word to describe the tenderness and pity that we feel for others, let us call it mercy.”
13. “Neither is it wholly true that one clings hard to his ambition when he has met a more than common obstacle. Care always invades the strongest soul, sooner or later, whatever its material strength and firmness of purpose.”
14. “You cannot keep your mind upon your work if you keep talking.”
15. “When we are great we are at the mercy of fortune; when we are small, we are in the power of our enemies.”
16. “The rest is all anecdote, not history.”
17. “Let us not be too ready to promise what we can neither perform nor warrant, particularly when people have already invested a good deal of precious time and resources on our account.”
18. “The prodigal son’s father sent him to a pig-sty, home of dust and swine. No sooner did he begin to turn himself into a pig than his father discovered what he had done. The son was therefore cast out into the desert.”
19. “For the most part, those who make us most angry are not those whom we think but those whom we don’t think about.”
20. “True greatness of soul is not to bless in a way that makes people forget your faults.”

Mark Twain Quotes about Education

1. “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
2. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think.”
3. “Education is a valuable asset which should never be squandered.”
4. “Most people do not value education because they cannot see where or how it will help them in life.”
5. “No man’s education should be left to professional educators. … The average school-teacher is a failure in life because he was not an average man.”
6. “Call it the duty of the teacher, as you like; but that is too much responsibility for any man’s shoulders.”
7. “The primary duty of the teacher is to teach.”
8. “We teachers are loyal and efficient servants, but don’t ask us to do anything extra and unreasonable.”
9. “School is the slowest and most expensive way of learning how to think.”
10. “Schools that claim a high percentage of alumni in a learned profession don’t train those alumni for anything except knowledge and liberal arts.”
11. “It’s not the age of man that counts, but the life lived.”
12. “I cannot imagine myself being a teacher anymore than I can imagine myself being an undertaker or an income tax collector, and yet I know just as well what to teach in school as any one. I know how you should study history, or geography or grammar, and I know what the limitations of the text books are.”
13. “If the teacher shows that he knows his business, if he faithfully and conscientiously pursues a well-thought-out plan of teaching, then we must allow him to teach as he will.”
14. “I could not believe that the lowest forms of education are so low.”
15. “The teacher who keeps a textbook free from any errors honestly makes, and will make four times as many mistakes as the average man in reading it.”
16. “I have no use for teachers who tell me what I cannot do, but who fail to give me hints on how to do something.”
17. “A teacher is a man put in authority over other men, especially other boys. The teacher who has authority over nothing is a figure of fun.”
18. “The doctrine of the superiority of the teacher over his pupils, the teacher as God, as an authority apart from all his fellows, is simply wrong.”
19. “Pupils should be taught to think for themselves; and this can only be done by giving them a great deal of liberty, and letting them get on with their studies without being lectured at by anybody.”
20. “The teacher who disturbs me is a potent disturbing force; he is a man whom I should be glad to see out of the schoolhouse.”
21. “I am tired of hearing the story that the schools are not failing, but that all children are failing.”
22. “One of the most important reforms which ought to be advocated and insisted upon, by all who have any influence with Congress, is the repeal of laws granting monopolies to educational institutions.”
23. “A teacher is a man who talks in somebody else’s sleep.”
24. “A school is a place where children go to be kept from spoiling their clothes and widening their minds.”
25. “The majority of men are like wet basements. If the drains begin to clog, the first thing which goes is education.”
26. “Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
27. “Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”
28. “You haven’t lived until you’ve gotten a good education, but don’t let that education fool you; it’s not as important as people think.”
29. “It is important that education begin in the cradle and go on to the tomb. It should be a matter of life and death.”
30. “Education consists mainly of what we have been told by others. We are what we are, we do what we do, because we have been told that it is our duty to do so.”
31. “Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.”
32. “Education begins the gentleman; conversation finishes him.”
33. “A little thinking and a little dying will make man and master of one another, and when they become masters they will be generous and not mean.”
34. “To the young man I would say, “Judge of your leaders by their standards, not by yours.”
35. “You can never get good apples from a poor tree, or good men from a bad system of education.”
36. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
37. “There is nothing so uncommon as common sense; no idea is so startling as plain truth; no discovery is so amazing as the simple fact that the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun. While it is common sense, and plain truth and amazing fact that the earth has these properties, it is not ridiculous to suppose it does have them. These are not the opinions of ignorant men — they are the conclusions of science.”
38. “The mind of man is like a windowpane; you can’t see through it. You can look out by a little bit at a time, but take away one and you take away all. Take away education and you take away all.”
39. “It is the duty of every citizen to protect the Government. It is not the duty of any citizen to tell that government what to do, but how he thinks the government should be run.”
40. “A good man is a good man, and this you can know when you see him, or hear him speak; but a good speech does not make a good man.”
41. “A system based upon universal education would mean that mankind will become as one mind and that mind controlled by one intelligence and directed by one purpose. Thus the purpose of free education will be accomplished thoroughly and to the end that man, by the knowledge of self and his fellow, shall cease to be a stranger to God and his neighbor.”
42. “Any man who has not learned the habit of thinking for himself does not know how to think at all. Thinking is as much a part of education as speaking is.”
43. “We are now living in an age that dates from the writing of Mr. Lincoln” ( reference )
44. “It is a sad fact, but true, that the men who make up the so-called educated part of our nation are really a large part of our ignorance.” ( reference )
45. “The mind of man is like a window pane; you can’t see through it. You can look out by a little bit at a time, but take away one and you take away all. Take away education and you take away all.”
46. “The tendency to drink among men is undoubtedly an inherited habit. It is the offspring of a propensity which we have inherited from the animal kingdom, and which exists in all of us. The thirst for alcohol must be taken into consideration in placing the blame upon man’s shoulders for drinking liquor.”
47. “The Republic will be preserved when its rulers learn that they cannot serve two masters – material prosperity and spiritual truth.” (“Washington’s Farewell Address”)
48. “The appropriation of money for public education furnishes a means of civilizing the masses, and of thus preserving our institutions. It is upon this point that we are to look to for the perpetuity of those ideas upon which our government was founded.” (“Special Message to Congress” January 5, 1887)
49. “The common school system is one which must be universal in order to meet the needs of society as required by modern civilization.” ( reference )
50. “The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for the protection of the rights of minorities, as well as individuals; for the possibility of a majority violating and trampling upon the rights of a minority is more probable than that a minority should violate or oppress the rights of a majority.” (reference)
51. “The Constitution was designed to protect all men against one man – it was never intended to protect one man against all men.”
52. “The Court has exceeded its authority in every possible way . It has set itself up as a third House. It has made its decrees legislative… These Judges are not subordinate to the people. They are to be independent of the Executive and the People. The judges are creating free government from the bench.”
53. “The duty of a judge is simply to decide fairly and dispassionately in each case that is argued before him, remembering that ‘he who makes an opinion may make it right or wrong.'”

Mark Twain Quotes About Politics

1. “The truth is usually just a good story with extra lies tacked onto it.”
2. “In politics there are not heroes, there are only regrets.”
3. “If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.”
4. “Politics is the science of deciding what you want done and then paying someone else to do it for you.”
5. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself but doesn’t.”
6. “A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.”
7. “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
8. “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
9. “The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.”
10. “The boldest lies are told in silence. It is only the little lies that are told with words.”
11. “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants, but there are circumstances in which it is necessary even to denounce its use.”
12. “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It should be remembered that love is wholly incompatible with authority.”
13. “The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.”
14. “If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
15. “In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of citizens to give to another…”
16. “It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.”
17. “Everything the Democrats have done is wrong; and everything the Republicans have done is right.”
18. “I do not like to go to law. I should like to go to Congress.”
19. “It takes a great deal of money to raise a son to be a man, but it takes even more to bring him back when he has abused that trust.”
20. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
21. “Among the most striking evidences of a civilized society is the comparative ease with which our species can be induced to do what it has no propensity to do.”
22. “If you are lucky enough to always land on your feet you may have a great deal of fun but don’t let yourself get carried away and start believing that your feet are lucky.”
23. “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
24. “Farmers of the same family for generations can be induced to vote for members of their own family, who may be as ignorant and incompetent as they, and yet vote against candi dates from a different family.”
25. “The dead are more numerous than the living.”
26. “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
27. “If you tell the truth all the time you don’t have to remember anything.”
28. “I am an old man and my memory is going. I can’t read what I write. I can’t even read it when I remember writing it.”
29. “There is no such thing as a good despot. It is a great advantage to be a badly-organized democracy.”
30. “Nothing so weakens a man’s resistance to the idea that he is in the right as knowing he is in the right.”
31. “In politics, stupidity and lying are not usually punished, and they are often rewarded.”
32. “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
33. “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
34. “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
35. “Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
36. “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.”
37. “The death of a thousand cuts…is the price that must be paid for liberty.”
38. “Most people have the courage to stand for nothing, and live only for themselves.”
39. “We are rapidly becoming creatures who cannot think a thought without first having it thought for us by somebody else.”
40. “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

Mark Twain Quotes Funny

1. “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
2. “Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.”
3. “I am an old man, and therefore I shall answer questions before they are asked.”
4. “The secret of success is for your work to speak for itself.”
5. “When a man tells you he respects you, he’s simply telling you that he doesn’t understand you yet.”
6. “Gentlemen prefer blondes.”
7. “The only people I’ve met that are more insecure than women are men who don’t know how to dress.”
8. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.”
9. When you know better, you do better.
10. When you do better, you know better.”
11. “Fame is a vapor, and should not be mistaken for substance.”
12. “The economic problem is a moral and not a physical problem.”
13. “I have decided that I am going to be more useful as a human being by helping to raise children than by writing or speaking or lecturing.”
14. “The only real valuable thing in the world is knowledge.”
15. “There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
16. “As soon as you base your opinion on statistics, you are statistically dead.”
17. “Flattery is like cologne; it may please the recipient, but it doesn’t improve the smell.”
18. “My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
19. “When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.”
20. “There has seldom been a young person whose character was not affected by the reading of novels.”
21. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
22. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
23. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
24. “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
25. “All big cities are one in the same, a collection of villages.”
26. “I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after tomorrow.”
27. “A liberal is someone who won’t take his own side in a fight.”
28. “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, most of which never happened.”
29. “A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
30. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
31. “It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.”
32. “Experience: that most brutal of teachers.”
33. “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
34. “When asked what I thought of England, I replied, ‘It’s a fine country, but it’s just the wrong side of the Atlantic.’”
35. “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, most of which never happened.”

Mark Twain Quotes About Travel

1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” — Mark Twain
2. “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” — Mark Twain
3. “Continental people are always more intelligent than we are because they travel more and know the world. They have had all of their prejudices rubbed off, in contact with other people of different nationalities.” — Mark Twain
4. “What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you but it does intrigue me. Travel is fatal to bigotry. People must meet and mix.” — Mark Twain
5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…” — Mark Twain quotes
6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness….” — Mark Twain
7. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” — Mark Twain”
8. “Travel is fatal to prejudice.” — Mark Twain
9. “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” —Mark Twain
10. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” — Mark Twain
11. “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” —Mark Twain
12. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness” — Mark Twain
13. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Shakespeare
14. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.” —Mark Twain
15. “Travel is fatal to bigotry.” — Mark Twain
16. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness.” -Mark Twain
17. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness… If you don’t go away from your own country, you never see it in its true light….” — Mark Twain
18. “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” -Mark Twain
19. “Travel is fatal to prejudice. 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
20. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” — Mark Twain
21. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness” – Mark Twain