Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 17)

“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”

“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”

“If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.”

“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”

“Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.”

“To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.”

“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”

“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which ismoney.”

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.”

“Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.”

“I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.”

“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”

“He says every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind if you want to see it.”

“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”

“If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.”

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”

“…I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.”