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Life Quotes by Mark Twain

205 Life quotes by Mark Twain

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Twain says life isn’t just facts and events; it’s a constant storm of thoughts running through our heads. He believes even the dullest outward life holds a hidden drama, comedy, or tragedy. He also jokes that a real adventure can be as simple as digging for hidden treasure.

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Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

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The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you want.”

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You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

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“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined…

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles - by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can imagine it.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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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.

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The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

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“It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.…

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“Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have…

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam,…

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To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that…

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“There’s no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama,…

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“Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees,…

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,…

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are…

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It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,…

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When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full…

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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who…

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“Everybody granted that if "Tom" were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him--it would be no loss to…

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Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was…

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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing…

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“We shall remember … Damascus, the "Pearl of the East", the pride of Syria, the fabled garden of Eden, the home of…

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material…

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“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is lead in his…

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There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the…

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“Now it is true that I could have learned without a teacher, but it would have been risky for me, because of…

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“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I,…

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“Among you boys you have a game: you stand a row of bricks on end a few inches apart; you push a…

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The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

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“Well, I will tell you, and you must understand if you can. You belong to a singular race. Every man is a…

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“Tom felt that it was time to wake up; this sort of life might be romantic enough, in his blighted condition, but…

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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.