Mark Twain Quotations And Sayings

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Mark Twain Quotations And Sayings


Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
– Mark Twain

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
– Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
– Mark Twain

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
– Mark Twain

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
– Mark Twain

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
– Mark Twain

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
– Mark Twain

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
– Mark Twain

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.”
– Mark Twain

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
– Mark Twain

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
– Mark Twain

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
– Mark Twain

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
– Mark Twain

“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 man.”
– Mark Twain

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
– Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
– 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

“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
– Mark Twain

“I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
– 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

“The easy confidence with which I know another mans religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
– Mark Twain

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
– 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 ones lifetime.”
– Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
– Mark Twain

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
– Mark Twain

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
– Mark Twain

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
– Mark Twain

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