Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Mark Twain

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Mark Twain

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Mark Twain

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Mark Twain

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

Mark Twain

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

Mark Twain

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Mark Twain

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Mark Twain

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Mark Twain

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Mark Twain

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Mark Twain

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Mark Twain

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Mark Twain

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Mark Twain

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Mark Twain

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Mark Twain

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Mark Twain

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.