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Mark Twain Quotes |
Mark Twain Biography
- Full Name (Real Name) : Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Born : November 30, 1835 (Florida ,Missouri, U.S)
- Dead : April 21, 1910 (Redding, Connecticut, U.S)
- Nationality : American
- Profession : Journalist, Humorist and Novelist
- Spouse : Olivia Langdon
- Children : Jean, Susy, and Clara
Mark Twain Books
Mark Twain is one of America’s greatest writers, he writing the great american novels.
- Life on the Mississippi
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Following the Equator
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Letters from the Earth
- The Innocents Abroad
- Roughing It
- The Gilded Age
- The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
- The Mysterious Stranger
Mark Twain Quotes
1. “ The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ”
— Mark Twain
2. “ Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life. ”
— Mark Twain
3. “ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ”
— Mark Twain
4. “ To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. ”
— Mark Twain
5. “ The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ”
— Mark Twain
6. “ Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile. ”
— Mark Twain
7. “ 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. ”
— Mark Twain
8. “ The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow. ”
— Mark Twain
9. “ Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ”
— Mark Twain
10. “ If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. ”
— Mark Twain
11. “ Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. ”
— Mark Twain
12. “ I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places. ”
— Mark Twain
13. “ I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want. ”
— Mark Twain
14. “ Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ”
— Mark Twain
15. “ Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. ”
— Mark Twain
16. “ Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. ”
— Mark Twain
17. “ It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. ”
— Mark Twain
18. “ When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. ”
— Mark Twain
19. “ The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ”
— Mark Twain
20. “ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. ”
— Mark Twain
21. “ Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. ”
— Mark Twain
22. “ Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ”
— Mark Twain
23. “ Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ”
— Mark Twain
24. “ Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ”
— Mark Twain
25. “ Never put off till tomorrow what may be done the day after tomorrow just as well. ”
— Mark Twain
26. “ Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. ”
— Mark Twain
27. “ Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked. ”
— Mark Twain
28. “ A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. ”
— Mark Twain
29. “ The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. ”
— Mark Twain
30. “ The lack of money is the root of all evil. ”
— Mark Twain
31. “ Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. ”
— Mark Twain
32. “ To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ”
— Mark Twain
33. “ Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. ”
— Mark Twain
34. “ We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ”
— Mark Twain
35. “ Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. ”
— Mark Twain
36. “ It is wiser to find out than suppose. ”
— Mark Twain
37. “ Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. ”
— Mark Twain
38. “ The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. ”
— Mark Twain
39. “ 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
40. “ Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ”
— Mark Twain
41. “ A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ”
— Mark Twain
42. “ A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ”
— Mark Twain
43. “ Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head. ”
— Mark Twain
44. “ Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. ”
— Mark Twain
45. “ Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ”
— Mark Twain
46. “ If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed. ”
— Mark Twain
47. “ Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ”
— Mark Twain
48. “ Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ”
— Mark Twain
49. “ You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ”
— Mark Twain
50. “ Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ”
— Mark Twain
51. “ The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ”
— Mark Twain
52. “ Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. ”
— Mark Twain
53. “ I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ”
— Mark Twain
54. “ Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. ”
— Mark Twain
55. “ The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ”
— Mark Twain
56. “ Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. ”
— Mark Twain
57. “ Always obey your parents when they are present. ”
— Mark Twain
58. “ 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. ”
— Mark Twain
59. “ Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ”
— Mark Twain
60. “ A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. ”
— Mark Twain