Quotes from Mark Twain
Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
- Mark Twain
There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
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
- Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
- Mark Twain
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
- Mark Twain
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
- Mark Twain
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- Mark Twain