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Category: Mark Twain

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

When in doubt tell the truth.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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