The human race has one really effective weapon,
by Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
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Sayings by Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- 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
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- 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
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- 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
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- 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)
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- 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
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- 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
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- 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
When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- 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
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- 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
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction,
but that is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- 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
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community,
and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- Mark Twain
(paraphrase)
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
Human Sayings
The very essence of instinct is that
it's followed independently of reason.
- Charles Darwin
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
The problem with making assumptions
is that we believe they are the truth
- don Miguel Ruiz
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.
- Anonymous
To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
Divine love will meet all human needs
- Mary Baker Eddy
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I adore the human experience
- Jewel
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