Monday, November 30, 2009

Mark Twain




A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Mark Twain

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain

All right, then, I'll go to hell.
Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain

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

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.
Mark Twain

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

3 comments:

  1. Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
    Mark Twain

    Better a broken promise than none at all.
    Mark Twain

    Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
    Mark Twain

    But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
    Mark Twain

    Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
    Mark Twain

    By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
    Mark Twain

    Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain

    Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
    Mark Twain

    'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
    Mark Twain

    Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
    Mark Twain

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

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

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

    Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
    Mark Twain

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

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

    Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
    Mark Twain

    Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
    Mark Twain

    Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
    Mark Twain

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

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  2. Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
    Mark Twain

    Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
    Mark Twain

    Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
    Mark Twain

    Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
    Mark Twain

    Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
    Mark Twain

    Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
    Mark Twain

    Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
    Mark Twain

    Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
    Mark Twain

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

    George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
    Mark Twain

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

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

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

    God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
    Mark Twain

    Golf is a good walk spoiled.
    Mark Twain

    Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
    Mark Twain

    Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
    Mark Twain

    Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
    Mark Twain

    He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
    Mark Twain

    Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
    Mark Twain

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  3. Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
    Mark Twain

    Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
    Mark Twain

    I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain

    I can live for two months on a good compliment.
    Mark Twain

    I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
    Mark Twain

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

    I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
    Mark Twain

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

    I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
    Mark Twain

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

    I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
    Mark Twain

    I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
    Mark Twain

    I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
    Mark Twain

    I never let schooling interfere with my education.
    Mark Twain

    I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
    Mark Twain

    I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
    Mark Twain

    I've never let my school interfere with my education.
    Mark Twain

    Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
    Mark Twain

    If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
    Mark Twain

    If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
    Mark Twain

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