Quotes by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Alive from: 1835-1910

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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  Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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  A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.

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  Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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  It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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  A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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  A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

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  A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

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  Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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  Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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  Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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  It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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  Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

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  Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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  refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.