Mark Twain Quotes



       “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” 
- Mark Twain

       “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” 
- Mark Twain

       “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” 
- Mark Twain

       “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” 
- Mark Twain

      “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” 
- Mark Twain

       “There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature.” 
- Mark Twain

        “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
- Mark Twain


        “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” 
- Mark Twain

       “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” 
- Mark Twain

       “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” 
- Mark Twain

        “I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!” 
- Mark Twain

       “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” 
- Mark Twain

       “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” 
- Mark Twain

        “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” 
- Mark Twain


        “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.” 
- Mark Twain

       “Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.” 
- Mark Twain

       “Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
- Mark Twain


       “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightening that does the work.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” 
- Mark Twain

       “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
-Mark Twain

       “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” 
- Mark Twain

        “I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.” 
- Mark Twain

       “The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.” 
- Mark Twain

        “The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.” 
- Mark Twain

       “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” 
- Mark Twain

        “I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.” 
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      “Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.” 
- Mark Twain

       “I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.”
-Mark Twain


       “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
-Mark Twain

        “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
-Mark Twain


       “There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.” 
- Mark Twain

        “Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” 
- Mark Twain