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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.

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

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

Mark Twain
Life, Inspiring, Meaningful
Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, Sarcastic
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

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

Mark Twain
Life, Graduation, Wise
"Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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)

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, Depression
Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

When in doubt tell the truth.

Mark Twain
Life, Truth, Honesty
Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Mark Twain
Life, Trust, Freedom

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, Inspiration
Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.684, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, Death
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 9, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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)

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

Mark Twain
Life, Motivational, Baby
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

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.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, Education

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain
Love, Life, Relationship
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9066, Delphi Classics

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Mark Twain
Life, Reality, Imagination

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Mark Twain
Life, Inspiring, Truth
Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Atheist
"Letters from the Earth" (1940)

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Mark Twain
Life, Thinking, Littles
Notebook, 1899

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

Mark Twain
Life, Happiness, Obscurity
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.27, St. Martin's Press

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Death
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.401, Courier Corporation

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Life

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