Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), this is most probably not Twain's.
Misattributed
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Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
No known source in Twain's works. <br class="br">The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ. <br class="br">Disputed
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: 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 a man.
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir… mighty scarce.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Alternate (also Twain's): Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 393
“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240 <br class="br">Variant: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! <br class="br">Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant of this quote "The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up." is misattributed to Albert Einstein.
Source: According Quote Investigator Mark Twain did write a version of this saying in a personal notebook in 1896, and it was published by 1935 in “Mark Twain’s Notebook”. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12/21/cheer-somebody/
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)