Mark Twain, Собрание сочинений в восьми томах Quotes
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
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.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.