Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
When in doubt tell the truth.
In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
