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Mark Twain Quotes

Today we celebrate Mark Twain’s birthday in our own, favorite way: sharing quotes. Let me show you some wonderful inspirational Mark Twain Quotes.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain QuotesPatriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah… didn’t miss the boat.

Leo Tolstoy Quotes

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

leo tolstoy quotesFaith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

– “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.”

– “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”

– “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”

– “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

– “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

– “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”

– “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

– “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”

– “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

– “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

Mark Twain Sarcastic Quotes

“We have the best government that money can buy.”

“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”

“I never let schooling interfere with my education.”

“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”

“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”

“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.”

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”