Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Mark Twain quotes, Mark Twain sayings, and Mark Twain proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.Mark Twain
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.Mark Twain
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.Mark Twain
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.Mark Twain
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Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.Mark Twain
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.Mark Twain
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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.Mark Twain
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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.Mark Twain
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.Mark Twain
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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
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There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.Mark Twain
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.Mark Twain
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When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.Mark Twain
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.Mark Twain
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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.Mark Twain
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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.Mark Twain
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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.Mark Twain
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Independence .... is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.Mark Twain
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.Mark Twain
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If smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.Mark Twain
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.Mark Twain
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If you beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.Mark Twain
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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.Mark Twain
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.Mark Twain
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You cannot depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.Mark Twain
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Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.Mark Twain