There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
MARK TWAINEveryone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
More Mark Twain Quotes
-
-
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
MARK TWAIN -
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
MARK TWAIN -
Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
MARK TWAIN -
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
MARK TWAIN -
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
MARK TWAIN -
Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
MARK TWAIN -
Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
MARK TWAIN -
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN -
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
MARK TWAIN -
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
MARK TWAIN -
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 TWAIN -
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
MARK TWAIN -
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
MARK TWAIN -
Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
MARK TWAIN -
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
MARK TWAIN