Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

Mark Twain

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Mark Twain

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Mark Twain

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

Mark Twain

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain