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Samuel Langhorne Clemens known by his pen name Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, the U.S. He is an American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who was lauded as the โGreatest humorist the United States has produced.โ and became one of Americaโs best and most beloved writers. He rose to fame for his travel narratives like The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi , and for his adventure novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .
We have collected the most amazing and inspiring Mark Twain Quotes About Life for you. Sit back and enjoy!
Mark Twain Quotes About Life
โThe report of my death was an exaggeration.โ
MARK TWAIN, Note to London correspondent of the New York Journal [June 1, 1897]
โHow empty is theory in the presence of fact!โ
MARK TWAIN, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurโs Court, Chapter XLIII (p. 396), Harper & Brothers. 1899
โPity is for the living, envy is for the dead.โ
MARK TWAIN, Following the Equator. Puddโnhead Wilsonโs New Calendar, 19
โTell the truth or trump โ but get the trick.โ
MARK TWAIN, Puddโnhead Wilson (1894). Puddโnhead Wilsonโs Calendar, ch. 1
โEducation consists mainly in what we have unlearned.โ
โWhen angry, count four; when very angry, swear.โ
MARK TWAIN, Puddโnhead Wilson. Puddโnhead Wilsonโs Calendar, 10
โName the greatest of all the inventors: Accident.โ
MARK TWAIN, In: Albert Bigelow Paine (ed.), Mark Twainโs Notebook, Chapter XXXIII (p. 374)
โBe respectful to your superiors, if you have any.โ
MARK TWAIN, โAdvice to Youthโ, speech to The Saturday Morning Club, Boston, 15 April 1882. Mark Twain Speaking (1976), ed. Paul Fatout, p. 169
โMan is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.โ
MARK TWAIN, Following the Equator. Puddโnhead Wilsonโs New Calendar, 27
โHonesty is the best policy โ when there is money in it.โ
โFor a forgotten fact is news when it comes again.โ
MARK TWAIN, Following the Equator (Volume 2), Chapter XXII (p. 259)
โAs to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.โ
MARK TWAIN, Puddโnhead Wilson. Puddโnhead Wilsonโs Calendar, 11
โAlways dress a fact in tights, never in an ulster.โ
MARK TWAIN, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter XXXIV (pp. 29^295), Harper & Row, Publishers. 1951
โBy the Shadow of Death, but heโs a lightning pilot!โ
MARK TWAIN, Life on the Mississippi, 7
โIf you tell the truth you donโt have to remember anything.โ
โGet a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.โ
MARK TWAIN, Taming the Bicycle (1917)
โNothing so needs reforming as other peopleโs habits.โ
MARK TWAIN, Puddโnhead Wilson. Puddโnhead Wilsonโs Calendar, 15
โโClassic.โ A book which people praise and donโt read.โ
MARK TWAIN, Puddโnhead Wilsonโs New Calendar, Ch. XXV โ Following the Equator (1897)
โThe stars ainโt so close together as they look to be.โ
MARK TWAIN, Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891-1910, Extract from Captain Stormfieldโs Visit to Heaven (pp. 829-830), The Library of America. 1992
โWhen you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.โ
โFire is beautiful; some day it will be useful, I think.โ
MARK TWAIN, Eveโs Diary, Tuesday (p. 65), Harper & Brothers. 1906
โIn all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.โ
MARK TWAIN, Christian Science (1907)
โHe saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.โ
MARK TWAIN, Fenimore Cooperโs Literary Offenses, 1895
โGodโs inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.โ
MARK TWAIN, Mark Twainโs Notebook (1935)
โTruth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.โ
โIt is a pity we canโt escape from life when we are young.โ
MARK TWAIN, p. 120 โ Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013)
โIt is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.โ
MARK TWAIN, Puddโnhead Wilsonโs New Calendar, Ch. III โ Following the Equator (1897)
โSome German words are so long that they have a perspective.โ
MARK TWAIN, A Tramp Abroad (1880)
โThe man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.โ
MARK TWAIN, Puddโnhead Wilsonโs New Calendar, in Following the Equator, 1897
โAgainst a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.โ
โA circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.โ
MARK TWAIN, Quoting a schoolchild in โEnglish as She Is Taughtโ.
โAll saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.โ
MARK TWAIN, The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions (ed. 1997)
โPut all your eggs in the one basket, andโwatch that basket.โ
MARK TWAIN, Puddโnhead Wilson (1894) ch. 15
โWe donโt care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.โ
MARK TWAIN, Mississippi Writings (ed. Library of America, 1876) โ ISBN: 9780940450073
โLet us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed.โ
โWe all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.โ
MARK TWAIN, The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrimsโ Progress (ed. 1870)
โIn my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.โ
MARK TWAIN, Mark Twainโs Letters (ed. 1917)
โMan was made at the end of the weekโs work when God was tired.โ
MARK TWAIN, The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions (ed. 1997)
โVote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.โ
MARK TWAIN, Mark Twain and the Government (ed. 1960)
โNone of us can be as great as God but any of us can be as good.โ
โEloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.โ
MARK TWAIN, The Devilโs Race-track (ed. Univ of California Press, 1980) โ ISBN: 9780520037809
โMy memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.โ
MARK TWAIN, Life on the Mississippi (1874-75)
โLet us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this sceneโ
MARK TWAIN, The Writings of Mark Twain: see Old Catalog -. 23. The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other essays and stories (ed. 1901)
โThe dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not manโs.โ
MARK TWAIN, letter to W. D. Howells, 2 April 1899
โThe more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.โ
โSome of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamistsโ
MARK TWAIN, Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910 (ed. 1992)
โYou ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.โ
MARK TWAIN, The Choice Humorous Works of Mark Twain [pseud.]. (ed. 1880)
โCivilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.โ
MARK TWAIN, A pen warmed-up in hell: Mark Twain in protest (ed. Harpercollins, 1979)
โEvery time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.โ
MARK TWAIN, Mark Twainโs Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868 (ed. Univ of California Press, 1990) โ ISBN: 9780520906075
โThe best of us would rather be popular than right.โ
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