Quotes by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Lived from: 1835 - 1910

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 30 november 1835 Died: 21 april 1910

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  • The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
    Telegram naar Associated Press (1897)
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  • The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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  • The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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  • The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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  • The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
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  • The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
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  • The truth hurts, but silence kills.
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  • The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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  • The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
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  • There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
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  • There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
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  • There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
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  • There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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  • There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
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  • There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
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  • 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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  • There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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  • There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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  • There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
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  • There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
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