"It is better to give than receive -- especially advice."
Mark Twain
Source:http://www.santacruzsentinel.com
/ci_19655487?source=most_viewed
Attributes
All you need in this life is ignorance and cofidence:
The success is sure.
Mark Twain
Bible
It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables;
and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a
wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
Mark Twain
Source:Twains Book Letters from the EarthLetters from the Earth
Bookroom
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are
absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin,
without even opening them.
Mark Twain
Source:http://www.thedailymail.net/articles/2012/02/02/ravena_news/
news/doc4f2803b08a97b981141122.txt
Cats
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are
the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know
outside of the girl you love, of course"
Mark Twain
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further
introduction.
Mark Twain
Christian
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be, a Christian.
Mark Twain
Clothes
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little
or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Compliment
I can live for a week off one good compliment.
Mark Twain
Congress
No man's life, liberty or property is safe while Congress is in session.
Mark Twain
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress"
Mark Twain
"There is good news from Washington today.
Congress is deadlocked and cannot act."
Mark Twain
source:http://www.dailypilot.com/news/opinion/tn-dpt-0205-gray-
20120203,0,6207443.story
Conspire
"nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men
for the pursuance of policies which they dare not
admit in public"
Mark Twain
Source:http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/opinon/2011/11/137_99184.html
Convictions
"Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong,
and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this
and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified
and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man
label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way,
and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right,
you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your
head! You have nothing to be ashamed of."
Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
Criminal Jury System
"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world;
and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding
twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."
Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mark.Twain.Quote.7220
Custom
"Often the less there is to justify a traditional custom
the harder it is to get rid of it."
-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
Dog and Man
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
Drink
Men fight over water but drink whiskey.
Mark Twain
Education
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Expert
An expert is anyone out of town,
Mark Twain
Facts
Get your facts first, the you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
Fame
"Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty
is oblivion."
Mark Twain
source:http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/2011/nov/15
/mark-twain-to-entertain-at-newborn-schoolhouse/
Future
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.
Mark Twain
Guardians
"[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep
religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that
the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more."
Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mark.Twain.Quote.814B
History
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Mark Twain
Source:http://www.businessinsider.com/the-stock-market-is-following-
a-frighteningly-similar-pattern-to-2008-2011-11
Humor
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all
our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit
takes their place."
Mark Twain
Source:http://www.philly.com/philly/insights/in_politics/138095798.html
Journalists
"I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists and the opinion
of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private.
But when they speak in print is it the newspaper that is talking
(the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the
community like the thunders of prophecy."
Mark Twain
Source:http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/jan/01
/jack-mcelroy-political-news-is-one-sure-bet-for/
Know
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
Land
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
Mark Twain
Laughter
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
http://www.examiner.com/mark-twain-in-national/micheal-
moore-fundraiser-this-friday-at-uconn
Letter
"I didn't have time to write a short letter,
so I wrote a long one instead."
Mark Twain
"If I'd had more time, I'd have written a shorter letter."
Mark Twain
Source:http://hamptonroads.com/2012/06/
guvs-letter-uva-mess-went-it-ended-right-tone
Life
"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is
an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a
drama, a comedy, and a tragedy"
Mark Twain
Source:http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/11/16
/review-george-clooneys-poignant-descendants-one-years-best-films/
Living
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Mind
I must have a predigious quantity of mind; It takes me as much
as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain
Moderation
"I have nothing against moderation so long as it doesn't harm anyone."
Mark Twain
Moral Courage
"It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world,
and moral courage so rare."
Mark Twain
Source:http://www.elpasoinc.com/lifestyle/local_features/
article_b0df035a-3b0d-11e1-a42a-001a4bcf6878.html
Music
Tunes are good remembrancers, Almost every one I hear
instantly summons a face when I hear it.
Mark Twain
Source:http://forestparkreview.com/main.asp?
SectionID=1&SubSectionID=38&ArticleID=6267
New Year
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to
anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks and
humbug resolutions. ...
Mark Twain
Opinion
"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all,"
Mark Twain
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going,
and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,
which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use -
which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy,
until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it
presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came
by it. Look at it in politics."
-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
Options
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
Philippine-American War
I have read carefully the Treaty of Paris [between US and Spain, 1898], and
I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate, the people of the
Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem…
Mark Twain
Source:http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=774210
&publicationSubCategoryId=64
Reading
The man who can read but doesn't, has no advantage over the
man who can't.
Mark Twain
http://www.whitehalljournal.com/community/blogs/applesauce
/x843628643/Herman-Cain-says-we-need-a-leader-not-a-reader
Saints
"All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel."
Mark Twain
Self Preservation
Be careful about reading health book.
You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
Senator Clark of Montana
"He is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag;
he is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send
him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the
penitentiary, with a ball and chain on his legs. To my mind he is the
most disgusting creature that the republic has produced
since Tweed's time."
Mark Twain
Source:http://bismarcktribune.com/mark-twain-s-view/article_47
cf0658-4143-11e1-8f9e-001871e3ce6c.html
Smoking
"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because
I've done it thousands of times."
Mark Twain
Statistics
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Mark Twain
The Church
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not
be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example,
Mark Twain
Travel
'Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.'
Mark Twain
Truth
"truth is stranger than fiction. In fiction, you have to stick
to possibilities. With truth you don't need to."
Mark Twain
Source:http://english.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/mmonline.
dll/portal/ep/contentView.do?contentId=10732515&channelId
=-1073865029&programId=1080133016
Weather
“If you don't like the weather in New England, wait 15 minutes.”
Worth
"I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars."
Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
Source: "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today", 1873
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