Mark Twain Quotes - Page 3
+1I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain
+1Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
- Mark Twain
+1New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
- Mark Twain
+1Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
- Mark Twain
+1Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain
+1Get your facts first, and then you can distort ‘em as much as you please.
- Mark Twain
+1If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
- Mark Twain
+1Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
- Mark Twain
+1The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
- Mark Twain
+1It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people’s manners, but drowning would help.
- Mark Twain
+1All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
+1Crank ? a man with a new idea until it succeeds.
- Mark Twain
+1Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
- Mark Twain
+1I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
- Mark Twain
+1It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
- Mark Twain
+1You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
+1I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
- Mark Twain
+1Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
- Mark Twain
+1It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
- Mark Twain
+1Man a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
- Mark Twain
+1A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
- Mark Twain
+1To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
- Mark Twain
+1The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
- Mark Twain
+1I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won’t.
- Mark Twain
+1One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain
+1Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
- Mark Twain
+1A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
+1Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
- Mark Twain
+1Honesty is the best policy when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
+1Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
- Mark Twain
+1Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
- Mark Twain
+1If 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.
- Mark Twain
+1Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
- Mark Twain
+1The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be? it is the same the angels breathe.
- Mark Twain
+1Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
+1There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
- Mark Twain
+1The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy–give one and take ten.
- Mark Twain
+1To eat is human. To digest divine.
- Mark Twain
+1All 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.
- Mark Twain
+1We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
- Mark Twain
