Mark Twain Stories

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

- Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

- 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

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

- Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

- Mark Twain

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

- Mark Twain

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

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