It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
- Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
- Mark Twain

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden.
- Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
- Mark Twain

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
- Mark Twain

It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there. (on Los Angeles)
- Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain