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


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