Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 19)

“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.”

“I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.”

“It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.”

“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”

“I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.”

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.”

“He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.”

“How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.”