Mark Twain Quotes

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Mark Twain quotes

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



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




“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”



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



“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well".




“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”



“Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”



“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”


“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”



“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”



“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”



“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.”



“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”



“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”



“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”



“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”




“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”



“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”



“Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.”



“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”



“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”












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[Brickjectivity]

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”

Ouch, that hurt.

 

[factseeker88]

My favorite:

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

“[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is WHAT WE DO.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) [/FONT]

 

[Gjallarhorn]

"A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell — mouths mercy, and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!"

 

[BSM1]

"The coldest winter I ever spent in California was the summer I spent in San Francisco."

 

[factseeker88]

"The coldest winter I ever spent in California was the summer I spent in San Francisco."

This one was really thumbing his nose at propriety. Back in those days it would have been called blasphemy.

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”

“[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is WHAT WE DO.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) [/FONT]