Mark Twain Quotations

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Integrity]

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Integrity]

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Integrity]

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Integrity]

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Animal Rights]

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Animal Rights]

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Animal Rights]

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Animal Rights]

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Prayer]

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Patriotism]

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Alcohol]

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Happiness]

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Happiness]

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Honesty]

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Honesty]

Often, the surest way to convey information is to tell the strict truth.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Honesty]

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Honesty]

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Honesty]

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Honesty]

When in doubt, tell the truth.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Honesty]

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