Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #1

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 bashfulness. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your

sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.  

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #2 Always do right. This will gratify

some people and astonish the rest.

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #3 Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #4 Be careful about reading health

books. You may die of a misprint.

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #5 If you have nothing to say, say

nothing.

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #6 Courage is resistance to fear,

mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #7 The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is

laughter.

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #8 I am different from [George] Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle.

Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #9 Classic -- a book which people

praise and don't read.

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #10 It is better to keep your mouth

closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove

all doubt.

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #11 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes

you nothing; it was here first

Favorite Mark Twain Quotes #12The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning

ain't distributed right