Mark Twain /Samuel Langhorn Klemens/ quotes Born: 11/30/1835 Died: 04/21/1910 Country: usa

• Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Mark Twain) [animals/pain/pleasure]
• "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) [people/think/fool]
• Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. (Mark Twain) [ambitions/people]
• Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. (Mark Twain)
• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. (Mark Twain) [life/age/approach]
• All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. (Mark Twain) [strange/people]
• When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. (Mark Twain) [love/brain]
• Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. (Mark Twain) [happiness]
• A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. (Mark Twain) [thing/form]
• It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. (Mark Twain) [facts/class]
• Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head. (Mark Twain)
• Never tell a lie except for practice. (Mark Twain)
• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. (Mark Twain)
• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. (Mark Twain) [company]
• The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. (Mark Twain) [more/more]
• A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. (Mark Twain)
• If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. (Mark Twain) [question/people]
• A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law. (Mark Twain) [crime/crime/virtue/right]
• Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. (Mark Twain)
• He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. (Mark Twain) [top]
• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. (Mark Twain)
• When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. (Mark Twain)
• There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me --I always feel that they have not said enough. (Mark Twain)
• The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner. (Mark Twain) [human]
• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. (Mark Twain) [temptation/cowardice]
• He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think -- yes, it was three; I attended their funerals. (Mark Twain) [think]
• I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying. (Mark Twain) [instinct/people]
• Sacred cows make the best hamburger. (Mark Twain)
• In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. (Mark Twain) [right/right/time]
• I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. (Mark Twain)
• I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain)

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