Mark Twain Quotes

“'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:reading

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

topic:man

“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

topic:humanity sin

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:success

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:age

“But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:age

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

topic:mind intelligence

“to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:desire

“It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

topic:thought difference

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