Mark Twain Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
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If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain 
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm
to the vessel in which it is stored
than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
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 (attributed)
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- Mark Twain
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
Humor Sayings
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes
a compassionate religion from a cult.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Humor is reason gone mad.
- Groucho Marx
Hang tough... big girl panties today.
- Anonymous humor
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
Life Sayings
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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