Mark Twain 1835 - 1910



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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain

When I was a boy of 14 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 learnt in seven years.
- Mark Twain

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
- Mark Twain

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
- Mark Twain

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

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

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

It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain

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

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

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
- Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
- Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
- Mark Twain

There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress.
- Mark Twain

Truth is our most valuable commodity - let us economize.
- Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
- Mark Twain

Don't let school interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain

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.
- Mark Twain

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
- Mark Twain

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
- Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
- Mark Twain

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf man can hear and the blind man read.
- Mark Twain