Mark Twain Quotes
Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. – Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.
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