Top 35 Mark Twain Quotes


If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.


Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

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.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.


Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.


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

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.

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