Mark Twain 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.”

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”

“A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

“It's better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

“Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.”

“They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.”

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”

“Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“Worrying is like paying interest on a debt you may never owe.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

“Buy land, they're not making it anymore.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“What is the secret of success? Right Decisions. How do you make the right decisions? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decisions.”

“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”