Epic Mark Twain Quotes To Inspire Your Everyday Life


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Mark Twain’s wit and wisdom offer timeless lessons on life, success, and resilience. His words inspire confidence, encourage laughter, and provide fresh perspectives on challenges. This collection of quotes will uplift and motivate you, helping you navigate life with humor and insight.

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

Mark Twain

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Mark Twain

′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don‘t have to remember anything.  Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Mark Twain

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Mark Twain

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.  Mark Twain

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can see.  Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

Mark Twain

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain

In a good book room you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.  Mark Twain

In a good book room you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Mark Twain

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