Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 21)

“If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”

“Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”

“I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.”

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.”

“All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being… he can't be any worse.”

“It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve”

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”

“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”

“Use the right word, not its second cousin.”

“Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.”

“Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.”

“He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.”

“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”

“A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.”

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”