Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 25)

“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”

“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.”

“There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..”

“Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.”

“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”

“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."”

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”

“There isn’t time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving--and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”