Mark Twain Use Quotations

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.