Mark Twain Quotes

"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

"It is easier to stay out than get out."

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."

"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

"Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

"You can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you."

being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

"Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself."

"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty."

"The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was."

"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."

"There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled."

"It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art, and ignorant also of surgery. Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes, and surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com

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