“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.”
Author
Mark Twain
1835–1910159 quotes
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel."
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“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.”
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”
“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.”
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
“I never let schooling interfere with my education.”
“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.”
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
“By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”
“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.”
“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.”
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
“Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.”
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.”
“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.”
“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”