Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. – Mark Twain
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. – Mark Twain
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. – Mark Twain
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. – Mark Twain
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. – Mark Twain
Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. – Mark Twain
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. – Mark Twain
It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. – Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. – Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. – Mark Twain
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. – Mark Twain
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. – Mark Twain
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. – Mark Twain
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. – Mark Twain
