 The lack of money is the root of all evil
Mark Twain
OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Mark Twain
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
"Monday-This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company, I wish it would stay with the other animals...Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain...We? Where did I get that word?...I remember now--the new creature uses it."
Mark Twain
Adam's Diary
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world was here first.
Mark Twain
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Mark Twain
Foreign Critics Speech, 1890
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
"I was born modest, but it wore off."
Mark Twain
Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight" show
There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
Mark Twain
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark Twain
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