30 Of The Very Best Mark Twain Quotes

~Mark Twain Quotes~

1. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
2. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
3. 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.
4. It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
5. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.
6. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
7. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
8. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
9. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
10. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
11. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
12. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
13. All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
14. Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.
15. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
16. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
17. The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
18. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
19. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
20. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
21. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
22. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
23. Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
24. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
25. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
26. Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.
27. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
28. When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
29. There are basically two types of people; People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
30. Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

~Mark Twain Quotes~