Great Quotations From Mark Twain

“People commonly use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp post — for support rather than illumination” — Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain

“I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.” — Mark Twain

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” — Mark Twain

“The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.” — Mark Twain