It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
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
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Sayings by Mark Twain
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- 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)
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
- Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- 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
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
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing.
It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig.
- Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- 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
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Get the facts first.
You can distort them later.
- Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- 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
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
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
- 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
It is curious - curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
- 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 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
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain
Not Sayings
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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