| Quotes attributed to Mark Twain: | |
| + A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. | |
| + A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. | |
| + Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. | |
| + Buy land, they're not making it anymore. | |
| + Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. | |
| + It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense | |
| + My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. | |
| + My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. | |
| + Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. | |
| + Necessity is the mother of taking chances. | |
| + Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. | |
| + Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. | |
| + Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. | |
| + There are lies, damned lies and statistics. | |