Inspirational Quotes by Mark Twain · Page 5

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

— Mark Twain

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

— Mark Twain

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

— Mark Twain

...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

— Mark Twain

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

— Mark Twain

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

— Mark Twain

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

— Mark Twain

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

— Mark Twain

Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous…

— Mark Twain

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's…

— Mark Twain

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

— Mark Twain

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

— Mark Twain

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

— Mark Twain

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They…

— Mark Twain

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

— Mark Twain

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us…

— Mark Twain

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

— Mark Twain

A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

— Mark Twain

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

— Mark Twain

If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

— Mark Twain

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

— Mark Twain

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

— Mark Twain

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

— Mark Twain

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

— Mark Twain

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

— Mark Twain

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

— Mark Twain

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

— Mark Twain

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

— Mark Twain

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

— Mark Twain

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

— Mark Twain

Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

— Mark Twain

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

— Mark Twain

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

— Mark Twain

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

— Mark Twain

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

— Mark Twain

“I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened”

— Mark Twain

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

— Mark Twain

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

— Mark Twain

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

— Mark Twain

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

— Mark Twain