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Welcome to these Mark Twain Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Brainy Quote Of The Day
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Mark Twain
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be 'consistent,' unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.
Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Brainy Quote Of The Day
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Mark Twain
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be 'consistent,' unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
We are strange beings, we seem
to go free, but we go in chains -
chains of training, custom, convention,
association, environment -
in a word, Circumstance -
and against these bonds
the strongest of us struggle in vain.
- Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating
in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot,
and suppose you were a member of Congress;
but I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain
Casino moons bonus. Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
Quotes Of The Day Funny
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
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