Browsing Quotes By Mark Twain
-
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 24 Dec 2014 at 9:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If Tom had been a grate and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: Predictable IrrationalityPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: 7 Dirty WordsPosted: 12 Jan 2014 at 3:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Why waste your time and money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you!”
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 04 Jan 2011 at 9:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no effect on society.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 18 Feb 2009 at 6:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 17 Nov 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 11:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 08 Sep 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Speaker: Mark TwainSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When in doubt, speak the truth.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy effective delivery with the tongue. Where their purpose is merely to entertain, not to instruct, they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized, and turned into the common form of unpremeditated talk; otherwise they will bore the house – not entertain it.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!