If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Author: Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Author: Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
Author: Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Author: Mark Twain

It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make .
Author: 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.
Author: Mark Twain

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Author: Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.
Author: Mark Twain

Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'.
Author: Mark Twain

People born to be hanged are safe in water.
Author: Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
Author: Mark Twain

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Author: Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Author: Mark Twain

The report of my death was an exaggeration After reading his own obituary, June 2 1897
Author: Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Author: Mark Twain

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Author: Mark Twain