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Mark Twain

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If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
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SUSAN TAYLOR Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
RUSSELL BRAND All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn."
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JONATHAN HAIDT The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
DEAN RUSK I'm intrigued by what video can do. It can endear you to a song that might pass your ears otherwise....
SAM BROWN Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is fo...
MARK TWAIN You try and manage your individual budgets the best way you can,
JOSEPH DAVIS This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh y...
JOE HENDERSON Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. B...
FROM THE FILM KILL YOUR DARLINGS As an independent woman, you are not defined by your partners or your parents. You are defined by yo...
KAILIN GOW It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based u...
MAURICE FLANAGAN You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue persona...
CARL HONORE Never let hatred give you an escort. It will drag your attention from all fortunes along the way.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN When youths take to the street, you don't know what can happen. By digging in its heels, the governm...
JULIEN DRAY The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,...
DAVID D. BURNS Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away ...
CHERYL STRAYED Don't live by your thoughts only; live by your words also. Whatever plans you think about, affirm it...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light...
HERACLITUS Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light...
HERACLITUS Perception filtered by thoughts, and thoughts themselves create our world. Control your thoughts, an...
JIM GENOVESE You are defined by your ingredients, by the way you touch them, by the flavors you draw from them.
GRAHAM ELLIOT The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is t...
BEN HARPER Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to rem...
JENNIFER PATERSON As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only ex...
WAYNE DYER I don't think it is appropriate to drag in the other candidates. I don't have any intention of signi...
FRANK DENTON The more you stay away from your partner the more you are attracted by heart.
KOWSALAPATHY You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Play by the rules, ... Don't give them any reason to take it [a better rate] away or penalize you in...
ROBERT MCKINLEY Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
WILLIAM FEATHER You can keep your friends by not giving them away.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, heal...
ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practic...
LINUS PAULING You can leave your mark in the sand of history just by discovering the secrets of greatness through ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You can dramatically affect the expression of your metabolism and your biochemistry by the way you e...
JILLIAN MICHAELS Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in...
MAUD HART LOVELACE When YOU Say YOU Love Me, I Don't Hear With My Ears Or Read YOUR Lips As I Already Know That By Look...
MUHAMMAD IMRAN HASAN Even in your pains, troubles or difficulties, create unforgettable memories by putting a smile on th...
WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM) Affirmations take our thoughts to a more protective and powerful place. By affirming good, by affirm...
MACHEL SHULL If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
SARAH PAULSON You can save yourself from others..., but who will save you from your own mind.., and yes don't unde...
ANUSHKA VIKAS I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are s...
CAT DEELEY Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear m...
OG MANDINO You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
KAT GRAHAM Be true to yourself. Being true to yourself is most effective way to make you proud of yourself.Make...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left u...
ANN RINALDI By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signale...
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN Mark Twain has been credited as saying, “The two most important days in your life are the day you ...
JOSHUA BECKER You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Why should we save them? It's part of the historical legacy of California. They were made famous by ...
MARC HAYES Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, b...
COLIN FARRELL You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . .
Or while away the ...
UFUOMA APOKI See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do ...
PAUL PALNIK It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whisperin...
GORDON ATKINSON You can start practicing the skills of assertive communication by paying attention to your thoughts,...
DANNY SILK The way you make use of your brain, heart, and body, any consequence out of it, has to be faced by y...
ROSHAN SHARMA It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of th...
EMMELINE PANKHURST Mark Twain.
FRIENDS You've just got to manage your time and do as much as you can, and not place too much emphasis on on...
CHARLIE HUNTER A dragon grows in leaps and bounds,
Like troubles mounting by the pound.

Its stature...
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ERIC ZELENKA You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of cou...
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from i...
THICH NHAT HANH When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any othe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any othe...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills yo...
KAHLIL GIBRAN All...religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries ...
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Don't measure your life by how many breaths you take, measure it by how many times you get your brea...
UNKNOWN You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one ...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one ...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
DEEPAK CHOPRA Let me erase all your despairing thoughts; I hate to see you brooding. Confide your troubles in me, ...
DANI MROUE Be not let fear take away your time by thoughts like “Nothing will come of it”, “I cannot do i...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - ...
MARILYN MONROE You own your feelings. You own your thoughts. You control both. No one has the right to any of it—...
CARLOS WALLACE It is in no way, shape or form your cosmic duty or responsibility to take away the pain of other peo...
MATEO SOL You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It’s easy
DALE CARNEGIE If you believe in your heart you are this away, because of your any ways, and other folk that's the ...
SUSIE L HILL Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American w...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Mark Twain supposedly observed, 'Don't pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper...
THOMAS F. CALCAGNI Put your troubles in your bag and drop them over the bridge on your way.
VIKRANT PARSAI Guard Your PEACE. Stay away from people Who make you angry with other people. They're poison to the ...
JOHN B. BEJO When your backs are up against the wall, you can stay there and let the other teams keep stomping yo...
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
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 The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN 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 Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
MARK TWAIN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
MARK TWAIN Distance lends enchantment to the view
MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
MARK TWAIN Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
MARK TWAIN Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
MARK TWAIN Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
MARK TWAIN I do not like work even when someone else does it.
MARK TWAIN Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig...
MARK TWAIN Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
MARK TWAIN We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether th...
MARK TWAIN Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ...
MARK TWAIN When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
MARK TWAIN Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
MARK TWAIN Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum...
MARK TWAIN There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
MARK TWAIN I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he...
MARK TWAIN There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were...
MARK TWAIN People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
MARK TWAIN My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table ...
MARK TWAIN When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a te...
MARK TWAIN In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
MARK TWAIN Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evils.
MARK TWAIN His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
MARK TWAIN Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...
MARK TWAIN All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. ...
MARK TWAIN Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Traini...
MARK TWAIN We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only m...
MARK TWAIN There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
MARK TWAIN It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech...
MARK TWAIN There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
MARK TWAIN War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has no...
MARK TWAIN There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhe...
MARK TWAIN To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his...
MARK TWAIN One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
MARK TWAIN A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
MARK TWAIN A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
MARK TWAIN I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, b...
MARK TWAIN The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
MARK TWAIN A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversati...
MARK TWAIN Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expe...
MARK TWAIN Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.
MARK TWAIN It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
MARK TWAIN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part cowar...
MARK TWAIN Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
MARK TWAIN Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it ...
MARK TWAIN I've never let my school interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in al...
MARK TWAIN Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
MARK TWAIN If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal di...
MARK TWAIN A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going...
MARK TWAIN Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiment...
MARK TWAIN Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the ca...
MARK TWAIN If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...
MARK TWAIN The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...
MARK TWAIN The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
MARK TWAIN Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the reall...
MARK TWAIN If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
MARK TWAIN ′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAIN I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN