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Quotes - Twain


It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Mark Twain

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Mark Twain

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.

Mark Twain

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Mark Twain

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.

Mark Twain

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

Mark Twain

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Mark Twain

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.

Mark Twain

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

Mark Twain

A man can seldom—very, very, seldom—fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Mark Twain

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Mark Twain

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Mark Twain

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