Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
MARK TWAINA half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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