Mark Twain: Trending quotes (page 29)

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”

“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”

“Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”

“Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.”

“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”