Mark Twain Regret Quotes

#1. Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped.
-from the Prefatory

Mark Twain

#2. Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

Mark Twain

#3. How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

Mark Twain

#4. Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Mark Twain

#5. I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

Robert Webb

#6. We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Mark Twain

#7. i'd like to fall in love again.

Steven Rowley

#8. He travels best that knows when to return.

Thomas Middleton

#9. Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

Dave Matthews

#10. I am only human, although I regret it.

Mark Twain

#11. If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

Judah Smith

#12. he hoped she would be happy, and never regret having driven her poor boy out into the unfeeling world to suffer and die.

Mark Twain

#13. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Mark Twain

#14. The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#15. Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.

Mark Twain

#16. Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.

David Amerland

#17. Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

Laini Taylor

#18. He smiled mysteriously. Adults are so good at smiling mysteriously. Do they go to college for that?

Sherman Alexie

#19. God I s Not A Religion.

Gary Beck

#20. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

Ally Walker

#21. For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

Mark Twain

#22. Looking back on their past decisions about whether to purchase experiences, 83 percent of people sided with Mark Twain, reporting that their biggest single regret was one of inaction, of passing up the chance to buy an experience when the opportunity came along.

Elizabeth Dunn

#23. What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

Clare Boothe Luce