Chance Quotes by Mark Twain

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

— Mark Twain

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

— Mark Twain

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

— Mark Twain

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

— Mark Twain

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the…

— Mark Twain

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without…

— Mark Twain

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed…

— Mark Twain

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half…

— Mark Twain

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

— Mark Twain

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

— Mark Twain

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at…

— Mark Twain

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war,…

— Mark Twain

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to…

— Mark Twain

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they…

— Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow…

— Mark Twain

Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he…

— Mark Twain

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are…

— Mark Twain

We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have…

— Mark Twain

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person…

— Mark Twain

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

— Mark Twain

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

— Mark Twain