Mark Twain Quotes

Quotes by Mark Twain:

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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

"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."

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."

"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

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