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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Life

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Ordinary, Ordinary Life

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

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Motivational, Positive
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, News, Uninformed

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

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.

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

Mark Twain
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

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.88, St. Martin's Press

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

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Family, Crazy
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Lying
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Birthday, Positive
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.443, Courier Corporation

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Humorous
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Truth
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic
Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

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

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Motivational
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Graduation, Education
Attributed in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1946

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

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Success

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Deception
Following the Equator ch. 59, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Work, Preaching
Mark Twain (2005). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.216, Prestwick House Inc

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Kings, Children
Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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