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Mark Twain:
- The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly.
I said, "I don't know."
- Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.
- Man will do many things to get himself loved,
he will do all things to get himself envied.
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Let us be thankful for the fools.
But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- Thousands of geniuses live and dies undiscovered
- either by themselves or by others.
- He is useless on top of the ground;
He ought to be under it, inspiring the cabages.
- Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - and no trouble.
- Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy
you must have somebody to divide it with.
- The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
- In the first place God made idiots.
This was for practice.
Then he made school boards.
- Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid
than to open it and remove all doubt.
- By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.
Another man's I mean.
- When angry, count four;
When very angry, swear;
- Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all
His works must be contemplated with respect.
- It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt
you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the
news to you.
- There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and grovelling
around you when you've got an apple, and beg the core off of you;
but when they've got one, and you beg for the core and remind them how
you give them a core one time, they say thank you most to death, but there
ain't-a-going to be no core.
- Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the
apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
- Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident.
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
- Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat
has only nine lives.
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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