Selected quotes · 80
№ 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