True Pearls: Mark Twain - 1835 - 1910

Mark Twain, 1835-1910 American essayist and humourist

- by RICHARD HOUSE

Note: it is notoriously difficult to ascertain whether quotations commonly attributed to the great Mark Twain did indeed originate from him. We've done our best here to ensure that the quotations below are indeed his own, and not erroneously attributed.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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 trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.