--- title: "21 Chance Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "21 Chance quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Chance sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/mark-twain-22_chance_necessity-is-the-mother-of-taking-chance_2815963.png" --- > [Necessity is the mother of taking chances.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/necessity-is-the-mother-of-taking-chances/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/mark-twain-22_chance_necessity-is-the-mother-of-taking-chance_2815963.png) > [Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/give-every-day-the-chance-to-become-the-most-beautiful-day-of-your-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/mark-twain-22_beautiful_give-every-day-the-chance-to-become-the_2925175.png) > [My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/my-experience-with-horses-is-that-they-never-throw-away-a-chance-to/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc8/mark-twain-22_animal_my-experience-with-horses-is-that-they-n_2453164.png) > [Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck-because-if-you-don-t-want-it/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/mark-twain-22_chance_steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck_72646.png) > [It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-an-epitome-of-life-the-first-half-of-it-consists-of-the-capacity/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/mark-twain-22_birthday_it-s-an-epitome-of-life-the-first-half-o_292263.jpg) > [Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/never-knew-before-what-eternity-was-made-for-it-is-to-give-some-of-us/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a53/mark-twain-22_chance_never-knew-before-what-eternity-was-made_2895737.png) > [It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-my-belief-that-nearly-any-invented-quotation-played-with/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdd/mark-twain-22_belief_it-is-my-belief-that-nearly-any-invented_2315854.jpg) > [When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/when-a-person-cannot-deceive-himself-the-chances-are-against-his/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14c/mark-twain-22_able_when-a-person-cannot-deceive-himself-the_946406.png) > [If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-i-d-seen-a-playwright-ever-write-an-play-at-the-same-time-i-d-have/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/502/mark-twain-22_amen_if-i-d-seen-a-playwright-ever-write-an-p_541293.png) > [A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-sin-takes-on-a-new-and-real-terror-when-there-seems-a-chance-that/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/730/mark-twain-22_chance_a-sin-takes-on-a-new-and-real-terror-whe_1127673.png) > [In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/in-religion-and-politics-people-s-belief-s-and-convictions-are-in/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/797/mark-twain-22_belief_in-religion-and-politics-people-s-belief_2158520.png) > [Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/look-at-the-mother-of-washington-she-raised-a-boy-that-could-not-tell/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e5/mark-twain-22_boys_look-at-the-mother-of-washington-she-rai_2493079.png) > [But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/but-they-the-infantry-had-no-use-for-boys-of-twelve-and-thirteen-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54e/mark-twain-22_boys_but-they-the-infantry-had-no-use-for-boy_3174645.png) > [If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-a-person-offends-you-and-you-are-in-doubt-as-to-whether-it-was/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5b/mark-twain-22_bricks_if-a-person-offends-you-and-you-are-in-d_2072326.png) > [A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-who-carries-a-cat-by-the-tail-is-getting-experience-that-will/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/340/mark-twain-22_carrie_a-man-who-carries-a-cat-by-the-tail-is-g_49796.png) > [Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/dates-are-hard-to-remember-because-they-consist-of-figures-figures/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/mark-twain-22_appearance_dates-are-hard-to-remember-because-they_2823662.jpg) > [We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-have-to-be-despised-by-somebody-whom-we-regard-as-above-us-or-we/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ec/mark-twain-22_america_we-have-to-be-despised-by-somebody-whom_3126179.png) > [...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-person-that-had-took-a-bull-by-the-tail-once-had-learnt-sixty-or/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e2/mark-twain-22_bull_the-person-that-had-took-a-bull-by-the-t_2974596.jpg) > [A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-who-keeps-company-with-glaciers-comes-to-feel-tolerably-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/mark-twain-22_able_a-man-who-keeps-company-with-glaciers-co_2902489.png) > [The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-first-half-of-life-consists-of-the-capacity-to-enjoy-without-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cc/mark-twain-22_chance_the-first-half-of-life-consists-of-the-c_918445.png) > [The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-first-half-of-life-consists-of-the-capacity-to-enjoy-with-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc9/mark-twain-22_birthday_the-first-half-of-life-consists-of-the-c_358485.png) ## Other authors on Chance - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 41 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-sarah-dessen-83191.jpg) Sarah Dessen 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/sarah-dessen/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hillary-clinton-42043.jpg) Hillary Clinton 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/hillary-clinton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-nishan-panwar-14.jpg) Nishan Panwar 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/nishan-panwar/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-gates-17911.jpg) Bill Gates 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/bill-gates/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [Aristotle 16 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 15 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jim-rohn-49870.jpg) Jim Rohn 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/jim-rohn/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/donald-trump/) ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chance/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "21 Chance Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Necessity is the mother of taking chances.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/necessity-is-the-mother-of-taking-chances/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/mark-twain-22_chance_necessity-is-the-mother-of-taking-chance_2815963.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/mark-twain-22_chance_necessity-is-the-mother-of-taking-chance_2815963.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/mark-twain-22_chance_necessity-is-the-mother-of-taking-chance_2815963.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/give-every-day-the-chance-to-become-the-most-beautiful-day-of-your-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/mark-twain-22_beautiful_give-every-day-the-chance-to-become-the_2925175.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/mark-twain-22_beautiful_give-every-day-the-chance-to-become-the_2925175.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/mark-twain-22_beautiful_give-every-day-the-chance-to-become-the_2925175.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/my-experience-with-horses-is-that-they-never-throw-away-a-chance-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc8/mark-twain-22_animal_my-experience-with-horses-is-that-they-n_2453164.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc8/mark-twain-22_animal_my-experience-with-horses-is-that-they-n_2453164.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc8/mark-twain-22_animal_my-experience-with-horses-is-that-they-n_2453164.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck-because-if-you-don-t-want-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/mark-twain-22_chance_steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck_72646.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/mark-twain-22_chance_steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck_72646.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/mark-twain-22_chance_steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck_72646.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“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", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's an epitome of life. 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