Mark Twain Quotes About Beer

• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• When in doubt tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Truth, Honesty

  Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Biblical, Beer

• Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Wise, Stupid

• Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Men

• A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspirational Life, Book

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Book, Communication

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.520, Courier Corporation

• What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Book, Beer

  Notebook, 2 July 1867

• Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Rain, Food

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.189, Univ of California Press

• I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Beer, Men

• Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Politics

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.151, Xist Publishing

• Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Book, Beer

  "Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World". Volume II,

• The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Beer, House

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3472, Delphi Classics

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