Quotes by Mark Twain

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.