Mark Twain Quotations

Twain Cryptoquote #1

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Twain Cryptoquote #2

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

Twain Cryptoquote #3

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning."

Twain Cryptoquote #4

"The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey. "

Twain Cryptoquote #5

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. "

Twain Cryptoquote #6

"Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute and cannot unite — but they all worship money."

Twain Cryptoquote #7

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."

Twain Cryptoquote #8

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain Cryptoquote #9

"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."

Twain Cryptoquote #10

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. "

Twain Cryptoquote #11

"If you don't read the newspapers, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed."

Twain Cryptoquote #12

"They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce."

Mark Twain Cryptogram Puzzles