What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Profession: Author
Nationality: American

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You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar.

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

A great and priceless thing is a new interest! How it takes possession of a man! how it clings to him, how it rides him!

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!

If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man.

I realize from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

In Honolulu, I saw cats, individual cats, groups of cats, platoons of cats, companies of cats, regiments of cats, armies of cats, multitudes of cats, millions of cats, and all of them sleek, fat, lazy and sound asleep.

We have to keep our God placated with prayers, and even then we are never sure of him--how much higher and finer is the Indian's God......Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact; the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it.

I have no special regard for Satan; but I can at least claim that I have no prejudice against him. It may even be that I lean a little his way, on account of his not having a fair show. All religions issue bibles against him, and say the most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.