Mark Twain Quotes


679 Mark Twain quotes:



"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolish"
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"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes American Author Quotes
"(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes
"Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Advantage Quotes
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Advantage Quotes
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
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"There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Adventure Quotes
"Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Adventure Quotes
"By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity another man's, I mean"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes
"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Action Quotes American Author Quotes
"To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Action Quotes
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Action Quotes
"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Action Quotes
"The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful."
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Action Quotes
"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy"
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"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Absence Quotes
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear"
Author: Twain Quotes Category: Absence Quotes



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