Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Instant gratification takes too long.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.
I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.
A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.
Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
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