100 Popular Quotes, Mark Twain. Word of wisdoms.

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100 Popular Quotes, Mark Twain. His word of wisdom quotes.

1. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

2. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

3. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

4. If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

5. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

6. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

7. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

8. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

9. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

10. Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

11. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

12. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

13. 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.

14. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

15. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

16. The lack of money is the root of all evil.

17. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

18. Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

19. The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

20. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

21. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

22. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

23. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

24. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

25. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

26. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

27. In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

28. A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

29. Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

30. Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

31. 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.

32. The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

33. Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

34. 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.

39. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

40. We have the best government that money can buy. There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

41. Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

42. When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

43. Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

44. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

50. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

51. All generalizations are false, including this one.

52. Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

53. It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

54. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

55. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

95. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

96. A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

97. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

98. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

99. If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

100. My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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