Mark Twain Quotes, Broken Quotes, Smoking Quotes

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Broken Quotes , Smoking Quotes

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Positive Quotes , Death Quotes

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Funny Quotes , Christian Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Funny Quotes , Life Quotes

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Carpe Diem Quotes , Self Quotes

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Country Quotes , Religious Quotes

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Hate Quotes , Love You Quotes

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Dance Quotes , Dancing Quotes

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Change Quotes

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Judging Quotes , People Quotes

Humor is tragedy plus time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Mind Quotes , Ethics And Morals Quotes

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Music Quotes , Lying Quotes

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Believe Quotes , Men Quotes

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Love Quotes , Marriage Quotes

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Years Quotes

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Mother Quotes

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Literature Quotes , Hell Quotes