It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
MARK TWAINNever argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
More Mark Twain Quotes
-
-
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
MARK TWAIN -
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
MARK TWAIN -
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
MARK TWAIN -
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
MARK TWAIN -
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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 -
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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 -
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
MARK TWAIN -
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
MARK TWAIN -
My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN -
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.
MARK TWAIN -
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
MARK TWAIN -
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
MARK TWAIN -
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
MARK TWAIN