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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Work
Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Following the Equator ch. 25, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Mark Twain
Life, Pain, Animal
Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Mark Twain
Life, Sassy, Discovery
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.59, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, Witty
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Forever
"Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist".

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, Friendship
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Mark Twain
Life, Money, Business
Following the Equator ch. 56, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Mark Twain
Love, Life, Success

To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain
Life, Garden, Years

Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

Mark Twain
Life, Uplifting, Book

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Mark Twain
Life, Leadership, Consistency
Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1192, Library of America

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Mark Twain
Life, Men, Gambling

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Mark Twain
Life, Birthday, Getting Older
"Mark Twain's Letters".

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Positive

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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.60, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

Mark Twain
Life, Grief, Struggle

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, God
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Diversity
Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.102, Book Tree

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Mark Twain
Life, Opportunity, Able
Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.108, BIG BYTE BOOKS

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Mark Twain
Life, Focus, Vision
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

Mark Twain
Life, Wisdom Experience, Knowledge Experience
Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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