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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  • A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
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  • Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
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  • All kings is mostly rapscallions.
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  • Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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  • Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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  • I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
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  • It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
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  • The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
    Following the Equator (1897)
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  • There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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  • Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education.
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  • Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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  • 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. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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  • Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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  • A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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  • A crank is someone with a new idea - until it catches on.
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  • A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
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  • A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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  • A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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  • 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.
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  • A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
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