If You Only Know Him As The Author Of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, These Mark Twain Quotes Will Show A Side You Never Knew

These Mark Twain quotes represent the best of his amazing quality. Mark Twain's wit and satire has a wonderful way of making you chuckle but at the same time leaving you with a thought that will resonate for days to come.

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

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

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

"As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake."

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination."

"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."

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop”

Although he was born in 1835 these Mark Twain quotes are still so incredibly current for our time.

"What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?"

"The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect."

"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

"The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with."

"The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become."

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

These thought provoking Mark Twain quotes serve as excellent quotes to start or end that important speech. Whatever the occasion you can always seem to find a suitable Twain quoteto express what you are feeling.

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