I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain - Fear - Death

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
Mark Twain - Newspapers - News - Lies - Reading

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Mark Twain - World - Smart - Stupid - Government - Politicians

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.
Mark Twain - Death - Writing - Habit - Great - Sorry

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain - Money - Lack - Evil

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
Mark Twain - Religion - Politics - Conviction - Belief - Stupid

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain - Advertising - Products

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
Mark Twain - Death - Government - Politicians - Loyalty - Patriotic

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain - Truth - Lies - Honesty

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain - Now - Regret - Dreams - Disappointment - Encouragement

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain - Ambition - Pessimistic - Great - Motivational

All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain - Confidence - Ignorance - Success

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.
Mark Twain - Religion - Jewish - Human Race - Power - World - Weakness - Science - Finance - Literature - Music

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Mark Twain - Procrastination - Funny