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Quotes - Twain


I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

Mark Twain

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain

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

Noise proves nothing--often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Mark Twain

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Mark Twain

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

Mark Twain

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Mark Twain

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.

Mark Twain

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