Mark Twain Quotes

Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain (1835 - 1910). Twain is considered the greatest humorist of 19th Century American literature. His novels and stories about the Mississippi River: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1894) are still popular with modern readers.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

When in doubt, tell the truth.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,

but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong.

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

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

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