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326 Famous Quotes by Mark Twain
11/30/1835 - 4/21/1910
Also Known As:  
Samuel Clemens     Samuel Langhorne Clemens     Twain Mark
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About Mark Twain

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Criticism Quotes, by Mark Twain

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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.

Cruelty Quotes, by Mark Twain

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.

Custom Quotes, by Mark Twain

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Death Quotes, by Mark Twain

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We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

Death Quotes, by Mark Twain

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

Death / immortality Quotes, by Mark Twain

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Death / immortality Quotes, by Mark Twain

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Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Death / immortality Quotes, by Mark Twain

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Difference Quotes, by Mark Twain

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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Dress Quotes, by Mark Twain

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.

Education Quotes, by Mark Twain

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Education Quotes, by Mark Twain

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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Enjoyment Quotes, by Mark Twain

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

Experience Quotes, by Mark Twain

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When I was a boy of fourteen, 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 learned in seven years.

Experience Quotes, by Mark Twain

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

Facts Quotes, by Mark Twain

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Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.

Familiarity Quotes, by Mark Twain

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

Flattery Quotes, by Mark Twain

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Fortune Quotes, by Mark Twain

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

General sayings Quotes, by Mark Twain

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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.

God Quotes, by Mark Twain

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Gratitude Quotes, by Mark Twain

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

Habit Quotes, by Mark Twain

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. thanks to Alan Bennett -Mark Twain.

Health Quotes, by Mark Twain

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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Humanity Quotes, by Mark Twain

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