Collection of amazing and famous 70 Mark Twain quotes

Here we've compiled a list of 70 quotes from the older famous Mark Twain quotes to new quotes by Mark Twain.

3 Mark Twain quotes

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened― Mark Twain quotes

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. – Mark Twain quotes

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

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I never let schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain quotes

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.― Mark Twain quotes

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I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. – Mark Twain quotes

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.― Mark Twain quotes

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I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.― Mark Twain quotes

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.― Mark Twain quotes

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.― Mark Twain quotes

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.― Mark Twain quotes

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.― Mark Twain quotes

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. – Mark Twain quotes

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If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.― Mark Twain quotes

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.― Mark Twain quotes

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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. – Mark Twain quotes

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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat. – Mark Twain quotes

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. – Mark Twain quotes

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.― Mark Twain quotes

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. – Mark Twain quotes

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.― Mark Twain quotes

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.― Mark Twain quotes

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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 quotes

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In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.― Mark Twain quotes

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In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.― Mark Twain quotes

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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.― Mark Twain quotes

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In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.― Mark Twain quotes

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain quotes

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. – Mark Twain quotes

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In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.― Mark Twain quotes

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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?… Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.― Mark Twain quotes

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. – Mark Twain quotes

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. – Mark Twain quotes

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.― Mark Twain quotes

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It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.― Mark Twain quotes

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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. – Mark Twain quotes

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. – Mark Twain quotes

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.― Mark Twain quotes

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.― Mark Twain quotes

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It is easier to stay out than get out. – Mark Twain quotes

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. – Mark Twain quotes

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. – Mark Twain quotes

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. – Mark Twain quotes

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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.― Mark Twain quotes

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.― Mark Twain quotes

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Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.― Mark Twain quotes

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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain quotes

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.― Mark Twain quotes

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

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I've never let my school interfere with my education. – Mark Twain quotes

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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.― Mark Twain quotes

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain quotes

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Labor in loneliness is irksome.― Mark Twain quotes

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.― Mark Twain quotes

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Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one. – Mark Twain quotes

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Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain quotes

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. – Mark Twain quotes

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. – Mark Twain quotes

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. – Mark Twain quotes

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain quotes

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Lord, what an organ is human speech when it is played by a master!― Mark Twain quotes

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Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.― Mark Twain quotes

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Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.― Mark Twain quotes

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. – Mark Twain quotes

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain quotes

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Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to. – Mark Twain quotes

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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. – Mark Twain quotes

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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain quotes

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.― Mark Twain quotes

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. – Mark Twain quotes