Mark Twain Quotations And Sayings

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“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
– Mark Twain

“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.”
– Mark Twain

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white mans notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
– Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
– Mark Twain

“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I wont.”
– Mark Twain

“a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and wasn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
– Mark Twain

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

“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
– Mark Twain

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

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not mans.”
– Mark Twain

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
– Mark Twain

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

“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
– Mark Twain

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
– Mark Twain

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”
– Mark Twain

“Of all Gods creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
– Mark Twain

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
– Mark Twain

“Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.”
– Mark Twain

“All right, then, Ill go to hell.”
– Mark Twain

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
– Mark Twain

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

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
– Mark Twain

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ”
– Mark Twain

“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
– Mark Twain

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
– Mark Twain

“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
– Mark Twain

“There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.”
– Mark Twain

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
– Mark Twain

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
– Mark Twain

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
– Mark Twain

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