Quotes By Mark Twain
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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