Top 2442 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Twain
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Last updated on September 9, 2024.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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