Mark Twain Quotes

Drag your thoughts away from your problems ... the ears of the heels can somehow manage.
Mark Twain

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain

Everything has its limit - iron ore can not be educated into gold.
Mark Twain

Every human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more flexible.
Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

Few things are harder to take the annoyance of a good example.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. The truth is not.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed.
Mark Twain

George Washington as a boy, knew the most common childhood performance. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain

First get your facts, then you can distort them as you want.
Mark Twain

Stopping smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done thousands of times.
Mark Twain

Go to heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain

God made the idiot for practice, and then he made the school board.
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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Good seedbed consists in concealing how much we think about ourselves and how little we think of the other.
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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 if itself, but the full value of joy you must have someone to share it with have.
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It is now gone from riches to poverty.
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Honesty is the best - if there is money in it.
Mark Twain