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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
By Mark Twain
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
By Mark Twain
A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
By Mark Twain
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
By Mark Twain
[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
By Mark Twain
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
By Mark Twain
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.
By Mark Twain
'One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
By Mark Twain
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
By Mark Twain
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
By Mark Twain
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
By Mark Twain