did I post these yet? I love quotes

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."

"When in doubt, tell the truth."

"Always do right. That will gratify some of the people, and astonish the rest."

"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."

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."


"Whatever you say, say it with conviction."

"I learned long ago never to say the obvious thing, but leave the obvious thing to commonplace and inexperienced people to say."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned."

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."

"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right."
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation

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.

 

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

 

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain

 

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

 

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

when angry count to four. when very angry, swear.

 

~~~~mark twain quotes~~~~~~

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"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater"

 

dance as if no one were watching, sing as if no one were listening, love like it will never hurt. live like you will die tomarrow