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The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
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The wit and wisdom of writer and humourist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain}.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
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.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
Music: Serenity. Aakash Gandhi.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
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.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
Music: Serenity. Aakash Gandhi.