Mark Twain Quotes


679 quotes:

"Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Attitude Quotes
"More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Prayer Quotes
"The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Education Quotes
"Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after they get out"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: College Quotes
"Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Believe Quotes
"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: American Author Quotes
"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Achievement Quotes
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Absence Quotes
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Life Quotes American Author Quotes
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Forgiveness Quotes American Author Quotes
"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."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Anger Quotes
"It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city.'' I never write ''policeman,'' because I can get the same price for ''cop.''... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"We recognize that there are no trivial occurences in life"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"Wit, by itself, is of little account. It becomes a moment only when grounded on wisdom."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes

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