All Mark Twain Quotes
- When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at… Asleep
- I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. Both
- If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again. Afterward
- The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim… Carry
- Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can. Congress
- Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his… Borrowed
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own… Achieve
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is… Absence
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we… Ceased
- Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot… Any
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal… Any
- Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular… Along
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of… Achieve
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede… Achieved
- We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we… Anxious
- I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me… Accomplished
- If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells… Accomplish
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However… Advantage
- I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that… Action
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was… All