Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain left a huge amount of great Quotes to Live By. This is a collection of the greatest Mark Twain Quotes you will find on the internet.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

It is easier to stay out than get out.
Mark Twain

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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The report of my death was an exaggeration.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark Twain

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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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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Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Mark Twain

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Mark Twain

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
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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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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
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If 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.
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If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
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In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
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