Mark Twain
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 throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
dream
Mark Twain
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain
When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
success
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
age
Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
age
Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
age
Mark Twain
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.
anger
Mark Twain
When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
anger
Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
best
Mark Twain
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
best
Mark Twain
We have the best government that money can buy.
best
Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
best
Mark Twain
It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
best
Mark Twain
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
best
Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
business
Mark Twain
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
business
Mark Twain
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
business
Mark Twain
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
communication
Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
courage
Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
courage
Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
death
Mark Twain
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
death
Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
education
Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
education
Mark Twain
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
education
Mark Twain
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
education
Mark Twain
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
education
Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
education
Mark Twain
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
education
Mark Twain
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
education
Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
fear
Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
fear
Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
fear
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
forgiveness
Mark Twain
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
funny
Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
funny
Mark Twain
All generalizations are false, including this one.
funny
Mark Twain
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
funny
Mark Twain
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
god
Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
god
Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
god
Mark Twain
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
god
Mark Twain
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
god
Mark Twain
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
god
Mark Twain
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
good
Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
good
Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
good