Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)