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Mark Twain Famous Quotes

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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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.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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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.
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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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.
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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All right, then, I'll go to hell.
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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When in doubt tell the truth.
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
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Better a broken promise than none at all.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
 
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark Twain
 
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
 
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
 
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
 
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark Twain
 
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain
 
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain
 
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain
 
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
 
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark Twain
 
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark Twain
 
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
Mark Twain
 
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Mark Twain
 
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain
 
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
 
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
 
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
 
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain
 
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain
 
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
Mark Twain
 
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain
 
Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain
 
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
 
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark Twain
 
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain
 
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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We are all alike, on the inside.
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
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