Mark Twain Quotes

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

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

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.

A person’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.