Mark Twain Quotes #1
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Everybody always talks about
the weather, but no one ever
does anything about it
Mark Twain Quote #2
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old.
You boys and girls will see more in the
next fifty years than Methuselah
saw in his whole lifetime.
Mark Twain Quote #3
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Mark Twain Quote #4
When angry, count four;
when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain Quote #5
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.
Mark Twain Quote #6
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery
of fear -- not absence of fear.
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A classic - something that everybody wants
to have read and nobody wants to read.
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The public is the only critic whose
opinion is worth anything at all.
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A lie can travel half way around the world
while the truth is putting on it's shoes.
Mark Twain Quote #10
All say, How hard it is that we have to die --
a strange complaint to come from the
mouths of people who have had to live.
Mark Twain Quote #11
A round man cannot be expected to
fit in a square hole right away. He
must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain Quote #12
Man will do many things to get himself loved;
he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain Quote #13
All you need in life is ignorance and
confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain Quote #14
The holy passion of friendship is of so
sweet and steady and loyal and enduring
a nature that it will last through a whole
lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will
throw those in authority off their guard and
give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain Quote #16
Heaven goes by favor; if it
went by merit, you would stay
out and your dog would go in.
Mark Twain Quote #17
Any emotion, if it is sincere,
is involuntary.
Mark Twain Quote #18
Honesty is the best policy --
when there is money in it.
Mark Twain Quote #19
Civilization is a limitless multiplication
of unnecessary necessaries.
Mark Twain Quote #20
If man had created man, he would
be ashamed of his performance.
Mark Twain Quote #21
Broad, wholesome, charitable views ...
can not be acquired by vegetating
in one's little corner of the earth.
Mark Twain Quote #22
Humor must not professedly teach and it
must not professedly preach, but it
must do both if it would live forever.
Mark Twain Quote #23
Clothes make the man. Naked people
have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain Quote #24
The trouble with the world is not that people
know too little, but that they
know so many things that ain't so.
Mark Twain Quote #25
Don't go around saying the world owes
you a living; the world owes
you nothing; it was here first.
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Against the assault of laughter
nothing can stand.
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Never let formal education get in
the way of your learning.
Mark Twain Quote #28
The man with a new idea is a crank
until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain Quote #29
Under certain circumstances, profanity
provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain Quote #30
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
Mark Twain Quote #31
When you ascend the hill of prosperity,
may you not meet a friend.
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Always do right. This will gratify some
people and astonish the rest.
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We do not deal in facts when we
are contemplating ourselves.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate
where smiles have been.
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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Mark Twain Quote #36
There's always something about your success
that displeases even your best friends.
Mark Twain Quote #37
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
Mark Twain Quote #38
I never could tell a lie that anybody would
doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark Twain Quote #39
Often the surest way to convey
misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
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I have not a particle of confidence in
a man who has no redeeming vices.
Mark Twain Quote #41
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom
that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Mark Twain Quote #42
The right word may be effective, but no word was
ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain Quote #43
A little pride always goes along with a teaspoonful of brains
