Mark Twain Friendship Quotes

'Mark Twain's friendship quotes and advise for real friends'

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

"It is easier to stay out than get out."
~Mark Twain

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
~Mark Twain

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
~Mark Twain

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
~Mark Twain

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can not read them."
~Mark Twain

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
~Mark Twain

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
~Mark Twain

"All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure."
~Mark Twain

"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."
~Mark Twain

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."
~Mark Twain

"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
~Mark Twain

"Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
~Mark Twain

"In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities."
~Mark Twain

"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man."
~Mark Twain

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
~Mark Twain

"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right."
~Mark Twain