Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
Mark Twain
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Mark Twain
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain