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Mark Twain Quotes

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“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, 20 Memorable Veteran’s Day Quotes
Tagged: Hero, Veterans
“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
— Mark Twain, Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America’s Most-Revered Humorist
Tagged: Forbidden, Desirable, Mystery, Temptation, Sin
“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.”
— Mark Twain, Roughing It
Tagged: Angels, Purity, Fine, Thoughts, Heaven, Nature, Peace, peacefulness, Life
“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, A quote by Mark Twain
Tagged: Anger, emotions, Feelings
“To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
— Mark Twain, 25 Quotes on Love from Great Authors
Tagged: Romantic Love Quotes, Timeless Love Quotes
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.”
— Mark Twain, Halley's Comet: Facts About the Most Famous Comet
Tagged: Motions of Space
“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tagged: Wisdom, Youth, Childhood, Capitalism, Value, Time, time over money, Worth, Experiences, Entertainment, Life, enterprise, entrepreneur, rags to riches, Wealth
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Tagged: Wisdom, wholesome, Views, Men, humanity, Value, Experiences, travel, Learning, Growing Up, different, exchange, abroad, Culture, expanding, expand the mind, Acceptance, improve yourself, Self-awareness, inclusiveness, international, Meaning
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
— Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Tagged: God, Religion, pirates, Becoming, Childhood, Imagination, play, boys, Youth
“That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.”
— Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad
Tagged: Government, Care, Compassion, sympathy, Understanding, connectivity, humanity, Systems, institutions, Inequality, Injustice
“His hair was short and parted accurately in the middle, and he had all the look of an American person who would be likely to begin his signature with an initial, and spell his middle name out.”
— Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad
Tagged: American, humor, Funny, american man, Privilege, privileged, Wealth
“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
— Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Tagged: mistake, Togetherness, Relationships, the garden, Religion, The Bible, Genesis, Life, People, company, good company, home is where the love is, Love
“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 go explore, dream, discover.”
— Mark Twain, 19 Pieces of Rock Solid Life Advice
Tagged: life advice, Celeb Advice, Life Quotes
“Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
“It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.”
— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A journey around the world
“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“These wisdoms are for the luring of youth toward high moral altitudes. The author did not gather them from practice, but from observation. To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.”
— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A journey around the world
“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”
— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A journey around the world
“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.”
— Mark Twain, Roughing It
Tagged: Nature, experiences in nature, Friendship, Friends, messages, messages never recieved, messages for no one, travel, Lonely, Alone, Thoughts
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)
Tagged: Right, Wrong, humanity, the right, Ignorance, Opinions, Isolation, Hatred, bigotry, discrimination, People
“The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.”
— Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
Tagged: kings, the system, Mercy, Learning, Laws, schools, Education, Experience, Life Experience, Class, Wealth, wealth disparity, Life, Equality, Injustice, Inequality
“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Tagged: Mind, Thoughts, worry, Anxiety, Thinking, Rest, peacefulness, no rest, riddled with worry, Anxious, deep thinker, headcase
“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and
shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you
know ain't so'.”
— Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
Tagged: schoolboy, Faith, Reason, realist, Reality, Belief, Believe, Religion, critical mind, Thinking, Thoughts, Philosophy, philosophize, Childhood, bully, bullies
“The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.”
— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Tagged: Killing, Murder, Joy, creepy, Human Nature, savage, savagery, barbarians, humanity, Hatred, human race, Characteristics, Society
“The two most important days in your life are the way you are born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion
Tagged: Days, Life, Living, Birth, born, why, purpose
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
— Mark Twain
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Giving, romance, Heartbreak
“Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.”
— Mark Twain, Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most Revered Humorist
Tagged: College, Education
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
— Mark Twain, Great Quote. A Little Too Great.
Tagged: Writer's Block, Advice, Writing, Art, Creativity, Encouragement
“What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)
Tagged: mark twain quotes, best mark twain quotes, Wrong, Right, morals, Ethics, Wisdom, Learning, Education, Growing Up
“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tagged: Wisdom, Youth, Childhood, Marriage, novel, Writing, Writers, Thoughts, Endings, Beginning, Beginnings
“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Tagged: compliments, Love, Relationships, deserving, live up to your potential, Potential, deserved, Determination, Ambition, Standards, Expectations, Self-awareness, inspiration
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Tagged: Human Nature, Natural, humanity, cross-culturally, sameness, difference, love is love, humans, international, The World, travel, narrow-mindedness, solution, travel and love, kill bigotry, we need travel, end hate
“His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Tagged: Mind, Thoughts, brain work, how your mind works, slow, Ideas, Time, way of thinking, Learning, Understanding
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
— Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Tagged: Science, fact, Truth, Reality, realist, Understanding, Learning, Investment, fascination, Teaching
“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream--your dream, a creature of your imagination.”
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Tagged: self, Self-awareness, Being, creature, Body, Reality, Dream, Imagination, Dreams, Spiritual, physical
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