Sunday 14 August 2011

Mark Twain Quotes and Sayings Page(3)

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain 

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain 

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark Twain 

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain 

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain 

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain 

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain 

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain 

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

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain 

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain 

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

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain 

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain 

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain 

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

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

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain 

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Mark Twain 

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain 


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