Mark Twain Quotes

When your friends begin to flatter how you look young, it's a sure sign that you get older.
Mark Twain

When you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

How is it that we rejoice at a birth and grief at a funeral? This is because we are not the person.
Mark Twain

Why not the truth is stranger than fiction? Fiction, it must have meaning.
Mark Twain

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas for their union were not seen as having any relationship.
Mark Twain

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself.
Mark Twain

The track is that the body is forced to do so. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do so.
Mark Twain

Work is a necessary evil to avoid.
Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

You can not depend on your eyes when your imagination is not the point.
Mark Twain