"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.












Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.
More Mark Twain quotes
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
"If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.
"The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
"Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
"The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
"It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't ...
"A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
"This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. ...