Mark Twain Quotes 08

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There are only two types of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

2.



It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

3.



The lack of money is the root of all evil.

4.



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

5.



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

6.



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

7.



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

8.



History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

9.



There are no people who are quite so insufferable as those who are always right.

10.



It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

11.



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

12.



I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

13.



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

14.



Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

15.



I am not the easiest person to get along with, but I am the most loyal.

16.



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

17.



You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

18.



Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

19.



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

20.



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

21.



Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

22.



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

23.



In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

24.



The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

25.



You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

26.



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

27.



Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

28.



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

29.



Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

30.



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