Mark Twain Quotes, Love Quotes, Inspirational Quotes

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Love Quotes , Inspirational Quotes

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Oratory Quotes , World Quotes

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Use Quotes , Truth Is Quotes

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Achievement Quotes , Firsts Quotes

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Breathing Quotes , Luck Quotes

it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wise Quotes , Fire Quotes

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Body Quotes

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Children Quotes , Giving Up Quotes

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wealth Quotes

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Law Quotes , People Quotes

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Humor Quotes , Yield Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Birthday Quotes

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Home Quotes , Cat Quotes

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Idiot Quotes , Evidence Quotes

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Love Quotes , Sheep Quotes

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Law Quotes , History Quotes

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Drinking Quotes , Wine Quotes

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Kings Quotes , Angel Quotes

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Funny Quotes , Wise Quotes

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Rights Quotes