A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

Mark Twain
1626 citations
A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.
Politics
26

More Author Quotes

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a col … ▶
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. … ▶
Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. ✨ Mark Twain (2014). Mark Twain on Common Sense: Time … ▶
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to frui … ▶
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that. ✨ Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). The Bi … ▶

Most Cited Authors

27

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

27

Curated Author Quotes

82 Unforgettable 🦇 Batman Quotes