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• I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle.
  Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) -- Advice to Youth (published 1923)...
• A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• I do not like work even when someone else does it. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• He is now rising from affluence to poverty. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• Honesty is the best policy--when there is money in it. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)