Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Mark Twain quotes, Mark Twain sayings, and Mark Twain proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!Mark Twain
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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.Mark Twain
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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
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.Mark Twain
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India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.Mark Twain
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.Mark Twain
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.Mark Twain
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.Mark Twain
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.Mark Twain
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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.Mark Twain
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.Mark Twain
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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.Mark Twain
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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.Mark Twain
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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.Mark Twain
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We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.Mark Twain
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.Mark Twain
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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.Mark Twain
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.Mark Twain
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.Mark Twain
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We are all alike, on the inside.Mark Twain
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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.Mark Twain
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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 man.Mark Twain
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.Mark Twain
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.Mark Twain
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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.Mark Twain
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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. Mark Twain
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It is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.Mark Twain
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.Mark Twain
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To eat is human, to digest, divine.Mark Twain
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.Mark Twain