Mark Twain

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Mark Twain

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

Mark Twain

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Mark Twain

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