Quotes by Mark Twain

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.