Quotes by Mark Twain

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.