| 326 Famous Quotes by Mark Twain
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“The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
Prejudice Quotes |
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“To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”
Promises Quotes |
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“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.”
Quantity Quotes |
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“I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.”
Sarcasm Quotes |
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“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
Smile Quotes |
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“Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.”
Truth Quotes |
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“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”
Truth Quotes |
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“Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Undertakers Quotes |
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“Be good and you will be lonesome.”
Virtue Quotes |
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Curiosity Quotes |
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“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
Birth Quotes |
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“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.”
Boys Quotes |
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“A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.”
Winning Quotes |
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“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.”
Wit Quotes |
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“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
Words Quotes |
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“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.”
Politics / government Quotes |
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“Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.”
Age Quotes |
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“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“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 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
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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. -Mark Twain.”
Age Quotes |
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Mark Twain Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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