Mark Twain Quotes

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain

Remember, Whether, Happened

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

Person, Why, Involved

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'
Mark Twain

Kings, Editors, Presidents

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain

Perfect, Opinion, Matters

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

Life, Success, Food

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain

Education, Consists, Mainly

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Loved, Himself, Envied

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

Able, Until, Seldom

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain

Human, Whole, Times

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
Mark Twain

Truth, Valuable, Economize

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
Mark Twain

Sleeping, Exercise, Taken

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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After, Sinner, Minutes

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain

Work, Play, Whatever

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

Education, Interfere, Schooling

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Makes, Charm, Forbidden

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

Book, Order, Discover

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Truth, Why, After

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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Live, Die, Others

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Himself, Written

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain

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

Business, Good, Three

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain

Greatest, Name, Accident

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Mark Twain

Truth, Nothing, Wrong

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain

Education, Long, Run

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

Person, Cannot, Able

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 30, 1835

Died: April 21, 1910

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