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“I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.” – A Collection of Quotes by Famous American Writer Mark Twain
Mark Twain is perhaps the most well-known US author (Buy Mark Twain Books in Australia). Mark Twain was actually the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. Twain died April 1910 in Redding, Connecticut.
Twain is perhaps most celebrated for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884).
Twain was a gifted writer and is very often quoted. We have collected here several of his most famous quotations for your pleasure.
The Mark Twain Quotations …
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it….
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
I’ve come loaded with statistics, for I’ve noticed that a man can’t prove anything without statistics.
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
Why shoudn’t truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities.
Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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