Best Mark Twain Quotes

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

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

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir… mighty scarce.

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

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Best Mark Twain Quotes part 2

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The secret of my success is that I make other people’s failures work for me.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

It’s not the things we don’t know that get us into trouble, it’s the things we know for sure that just ain’t so.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The lack of money is the root of all evil, except for politicians.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Don’t let your studies interfere with your education.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

To refuse a compliment is to selfishly deny others the joy of giving.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

It’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.