Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain

Communism is idiocy. They want to divide up the property. Suppose they did it - it requires brains to keep money as well as make it. In a precious little while the money would be back in the former owner's hands and the communist would be poor again.
- Mark Twain

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
- Mark Twain

Conformity - the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
- Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
- Mark Twain

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.
- Mark Twain

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
- Mark Twain

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
- Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain