Mark Twain is perhaps the most famous US writer. Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Samuel Clemens died April 1910 in Connecticut.

Twain is perhaps most famous for his books “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884).

Twain was a gifted writer and humorist and is very often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected some of his more famous quotes for your enjoyment.

The Mark Twain Quotes (source) …

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you’re busy interrupting.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

Everything has its limit–iron ore cannot be educated into gold. – 1906

It is discouraging to try and 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.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

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