Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
romantic · american-humor
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens · 1835–1910
The republic's chief satirist. Truth, travel, Congress, and the pleasure of calling an idiot an idiot.
If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government when it deserves it.
Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.