It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. – Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish. – Mark Twain
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. – Mark Twain
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old. – Mark Twain
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – Mark Twain
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. – Mark Twain
I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places. – Mark Twain
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. – Mark Twain
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. – Mark Twain
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. – Mark Twain
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. – Mark Twain
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so. – Mark Twain