Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 18)

“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”

“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”

“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”

“You can't throw too much style into a miracle.”

“You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends”

“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”

“All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”

“When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.”

“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.”

“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”

“If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.”

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

“Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.”

“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”

“It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.”

“It is higher and nobler to be kind.”

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.”

“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”