“Mark Twain Once Said …”: A Small Collection of Legendary Quotations by Author Mark Twain

Mark Twain is one of the most famous US novelists. Mark Twain was actually the pen name of Samuel Clemens. Clemens was born in Missouri in November 1835. Twain died in 1910 at the age of 74.

Mark Twain is celebrated for his books “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.

Twain was a well-regarded writer and humorist and is often quoted in print and in speeches. We have collected some of his more famous quotes for your pleasure.

And Now The Famous Mark Twain Quotations (found here)

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.

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

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it–and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again–and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

He would come in and say he changed his mind — which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn’t have any.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Mark Twain in Print: Adventures of Tom Sawyer Australia

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