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“A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.” – A Small Collection of Legendary Quotations by American Author Mark Twain
Mark Twain is one of the most well-known American writers (Mark Twain Books New Zealand). Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835. He died April 21, 1910 at the age of 74 in Redding, Connecticut.
Mark Twain is most well-known for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884).
Twain was a talented writer and is very often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected several of his more famous quotations for your pleasure.
And Now The Famous Mark Twain Quotations (source):
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
“Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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