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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 7

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

Waiting

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

World, Idiot, Proof

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Inspirational, Life, Travel

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Funny, Motivational, Business

Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen (1997). “The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

Funny, Life, Sarcastic

"Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890".

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

Funny, Believe, Hands

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Nature, Inspiration, Learning

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Friendship, Men, Perfect

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2014, GENERAL PRESS

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Communication, Resolution, Win Win

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

Doubt, Enemy, Telling The Truth

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

Mother, Men, Law

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

Lying, Indulge In, Deception

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.28, Book Tree

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Fitness, Humorous, Health

Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

Love You, Inspiration, Enemy

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Good Life, Age, Looks

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

Funny, Clever, Men

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

Favors, Flattery, Compliment

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Stubborn

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

Wine, Bottles, Red

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

God, Sarcastic, Education

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Inspiration, Cocky, Ignorance

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.11, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Life, Positivity, Today

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Men, Salary, Noise

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.317, Univ of California Press

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

Kindness, Book, Communication

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.520, Courier Corporation

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