Mark Twain

(real name Samuel L. Clemens; American author; born 1835; died 1910)

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read. [Select]

{Categories: Art and Literature, Wisdom and Ignorance}

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. [Select]

{Category: Happiness and Misery}

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure. [Select]

{Category: Success and Failure}

Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. [Select]

{Category: Vice and Virtue}

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. [Select]

{Category: Vice and Virtue}

Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said. [Select]

{Category: Vice and Virtue}

Be good and you will be lonesome. [Select]

Following the Equator [Shop] {Categories: Happiness and Misery, Vice and Virtue}

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. [Select]

{Category: Happiness and Misery}

Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful... Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. [Select]

{Category: Science and Religion}

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. [Select]

{Category: Altruism and Cynicism}

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. [Select]

{Category: Art and Literature}

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. [Select]

{Categories: Vice and Virtue, Work and Recreation}

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. [Select]

{Category: Altruism and Cynicism}

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. [Select]

{Category: Altruism and Cynicism}

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. [Select]

{Category: Art and Literature}

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know." [Select]

{Category: Wisdom and Ignorance}

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. [Select]

{Category: Wealth and Poverty}

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. [Select]

{Category: Vice and Virtue}

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. [Select]

{Category: Vice and Virtue}

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