Mark Twain Quotes with printable bookmarks

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"—which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket"

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

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

in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all.

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars

Two or three days and nights went by; I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely.

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve

Training—training is everything; training is all there is to a person.