The Quotable Mark Twain
February 2, 2013 Leave a comment
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
“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.”
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”
“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
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