39 Mark Twain Quotes With Deep Life Lessons That Are Worth Listening To

1. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

2. We have the best government that money can buy.

3. 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.

4. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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

6. Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

7. Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

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

9. Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

10. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

1. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

2. There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

3. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

4. Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

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

6. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

7. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

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

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

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

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

2. Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

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

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

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

6. You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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

8. Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

9. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

10. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

1. It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

2. 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.

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

4. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

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