Quote

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Mark Twain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Acknowledge
Honesty
Education
Lying
Truth
Acknowledges
Never
Liar
Men
Liars
Life
Truthful

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.
Mark Twain
Image
God cures and the doctor sends the bill.
Mark Twain
Image
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
Mark Twain
Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Mark Twain
Image
I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is hogwash
Mark Twain
Image
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.
Mark Twain
Image
I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return
Mark Twain
Image
How lovely is death and how niggardly it is doled out.
Mark Twain
Image
Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
Mark Twain
Image
I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.
Mark Twain
Image
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
Mark Twain
Image
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.
Mark Twain
Image
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain
Image
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
Mark Twain
Image
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain
Image
The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain
Image
I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases
Mark Twain
Image
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Mark Twain
Image
By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.
Mark Twain
Image
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
Mark Twain