Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.