Selected quotes · 80
№ 01
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”
Mark TwainFreedom
№ 02
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
Mark TwainSelf-belief
№ 03
“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”
Mark TwainCourage
№ 04
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
Mark TwainCourage
№ 05
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark TwainMindset
№ 06
“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 07
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
Mark TwainNature
№ 08
“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”
Mark TwainAction
№ 09
“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
Mark TwainFreedom
№ 10
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
Mark TwainSuccess
№ 11
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark TwainAction
№ 12
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
Mark TwainGrowth
№ 13
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
Mark TwainTime
№ 14
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
Mark TwainTime
№ 15
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 16
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Mark TwainLife
№ 17
“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.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 18
“Principles have no real force except when one is well - fed.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 19
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Mark TwainJustice
№ 20
“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 21
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Mark TwainCreativity
№ 22
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 23
“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
Mark TwainLife
№ 24
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 25
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 26
“Don't let schooling interfere with your education.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 27
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 28
“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”
Mark TwainTime
№ 29
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Mark TwainLove
№ 30
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 31
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. It is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
Mark TwainFriendship
№ 32
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark TwainCourage
№ 33
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark TwainFriendship
№ 34
“When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.”
Mark TwainLife
№ 35
“We have the best government that money can buy.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 36
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark TwainAction
№ 37
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
Mark TwainFriendship
№ 38
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
Mark TwainAction
№ 39
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
Mark TwainJustice
№ 40
“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 TwainWisdom
№ 41
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 42
“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
Mark TwainFriendship
№ 43
“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 44
“Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.”
Mark TwainFaith
№ 45
“Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”
Mark TwainFriendship
№ 46
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 47
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark TwainJustice
№ 48
“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 49
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Mark TwainLife
№ 50
“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 51
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Mark TwainFaith
№ 52
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Mark TwainHappiness
№ 53
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 54
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark TwainAction
№ 55
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 56
“'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 57
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
Mark TwainHappiness
№ 58
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 59
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
Mark TwainLife
№ 60
“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 man.”
Mark TwainFreedom
№ 61
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 62
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
Mark TwainMindset
№ 63
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 64
“When in doubt tell the truth.”
Mark TwainJustice
№ 65
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 66
“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
Mark TwainFriendship
№ 67
“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.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 68
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
Mark TwainLife
№ 69
“It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”
Mark TwainTime
№ 70
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 71
“Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 72
“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
Mark TwainJustice
№ 73
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
Mark TwainCreativity
№ 74
“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
Mark TwainFreedom
№ 75
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark TwainCourage
№ 76
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
Mark TwainCourage
№ 77
“Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.”
Mark TwainFailure
№ 78
“Never regret anything that made you smile.”
Mark TwainHappiness
№ 79
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Mark TwainWisdom
№ 80
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
Mark TwainCourage