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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - 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 twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learnt in seven years. - Mark Twain Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. - Mark Twain Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. - Mark Twain Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - 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 Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. - Mark Twain Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. - Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. - Mark Twain Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. - Mark Twain There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress. - Mark Twain Truth is our most valuable commodity - let us economize. - Mark Twain Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. - Mark Twain Don't let school interfere with your education. - Mark Twain Golf is a good walk spoiled. - 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 Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven. - Mark Twain The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. - Mark Twain There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Mark Twain Kindness is a language which the deaf man can hear and the blind man read. - Mark Twain |