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Mark Twain Quotes

mark-twain– “A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
– “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
– “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

– “An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.”

– “Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.”

– “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

– “By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man’s I mean.”

– “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

– “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”

– “Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

– “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

– “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

– “Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”

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

– “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”

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

– “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

– “Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”

– “Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.”

– “Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.”

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

– “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.”

– “I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”

– “I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.”

– “I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

– “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

– “I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.”

– “I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.”

Mark Twain Quotes #2

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

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

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favor at the same time. There are many asses.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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 generalizations are false, including this one.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Chastity — you can carry it too far.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man’s I mean.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

There is nothing that saps one’s confidence as the knowing how to do a thing.

We have the best government that money can buy.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.