Quote

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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
Well
Told
Hard
Race
Lying
Sown
Individual
Lied
History
Thick
Experience
Immortal
Truth
Kill
Wells
Evidence

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
Mark Twain
Image
Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
Mark Twain
Image
Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.
Mark Twain
Image
It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.
Mark Twain
Image
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
Mark Twain
Image
A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
Mark Twain
Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.
Mark Twain
Image
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Mark Twain
Image
My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.
Mark Twain
Image
I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.
Mark Twain
Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
Mark Twain
Image
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
Mark Twain
Image
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
Image
If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.
Mark Twain
Image
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.
Mark Twain
Image
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'
Mark Twain
Image
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books and it is the best I know it perfectly well.
Mark Twain
Image
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.
Mark Twain
Image
I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.
Mark Twain
Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain