This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Monday, July 2, 2018

Quotes by Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

Quotes:

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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.

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (pause and reflect).

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Lying is a lot harder than telling the truth in the end.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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

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

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

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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 rather not.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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

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.

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

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