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
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
- Mark Twain
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
- Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- 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
"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one'
- Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop
- Mark Twain
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
- Mark Twain
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation'
- Mark Twain
"All generalizations are false, including this one.
- Mark Twain
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn
- Mark Twain
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become
- Mark Twain
It is easier to stay out than get out.
- Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often
- Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Mark Twain
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain
When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
- Mark Twain
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work.
- Mark Twain
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
- Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- Mark Twain
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
- Mark Twain
Buy land, they're not making it anymore
- Mark Twain
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
- Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- Mark Twain
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain
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.
- Mark Twain.
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
- Mark Twain
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
- Mark Twain
