Mark Twain’s Memorable Quotes

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

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

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

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

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

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 can’t read them.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.

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

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

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.

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

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

Mark Twain’s Memorable Quotes part 2

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

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

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

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.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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

Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

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

It’s not the things we don’t know that get us in trouble, it’s the things we know that ain’t so.

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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

The only way to keep your friends is to never borrow money from them.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.

We are all ignorant, just on different subjects.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.