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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  • Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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  • 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.
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  • France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
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  • Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
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  • Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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  • Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
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  • Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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  • Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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  • Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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  • Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life.
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  • Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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  • Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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  • Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
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  • He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
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  • He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
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  • He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
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  • He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
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  • Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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  • His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.''
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  • History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
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