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.'
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.Mark Twain
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Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.Mark Twain
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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.Mark Twain
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I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world. Mark Twain
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History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.Mark Twain
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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.Mark Twain
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The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is alright in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge—it works.Mark Twain
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.Mark Twain
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.Mark Twain
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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.Mark Twain
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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.Mark Twain
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.Mark Twain
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Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.Mark Twain
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.Mark Twain
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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.Mark Twain
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.Mark Twain
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An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.Mark Twain
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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.Mark Twain
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Always do right, This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.Mark Twain
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.Mark Twain
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession--what there is of it.Mark Twain
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The aim of democracy is harmony, its goal is Brotherhood.Mark Twain
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Peace..happiness..brotherhood.. that is what we want in this world.Mark Twain
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As long as you are in your right mind, don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection.Mark Twain
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.Mark Twain
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Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into goldMark Twain
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.Mark Twain
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.Mark Twain
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.Mark Twain