Inspirational Quotes by Mark Twain · Page 6

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

— Mark Twain

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

— Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

— Mark Twain

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

— Mark Twain

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

— Mark Twain

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

— Mark Twain

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

— Mark Twain

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

— Mark Twain

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those…

— 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

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

— Mark Twain

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

— 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

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

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves…

— Mark Twain

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

— Mark Twain

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

— Mark Twain

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

— 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

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

— Mark Twain

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

— Mark Twain

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

— Mark Twain

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

— Mark Twain

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

— Mark Twain

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

— Mark Twain

“‎The most important days in your life are the day you were born…and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

— Mark Twain

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

— Mark Twain

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

— 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

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

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain