Quotes About Life Mark Twain

#1. The two most important days if your life are the day you are born ... and the day you find out why having multiple screens for your computer is so awesome because now reports and grants are like a billion times easier!

Mark Twain

#2. Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Mark Twain

#3. To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;

Mark Twain

#4. we felt very complacent and conceited, and better satisfied with life after we had added it to our list of things which we had seen and some other people had not.

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#5. The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell.

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#6. If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

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#7. I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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#8. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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#9. It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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#10. A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Laini Taylor

#11. Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

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#12. There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.

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#13. No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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#14. But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

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#15. The most important day of your life is not the day you were born, it's the day you realize why!

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Rand Charles

#16. To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes.

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#17. Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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#18. Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?

Stephen Leather

#19. Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other

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#20. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain

#21. It know we have a fashion of saying "such and such an event was the turning-point in my life," but we shouldn't say it. We should merely grant that its place as LAST link in the chain makes it the most CONSPICUOUS link; in real importance it has no advantage over any one of its predecessors.

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#22. It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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#23. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

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#24. I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows what they want.

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#25. Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

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#26. Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.

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#27. I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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#28. Marriage
yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Mark Twain

#29. It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent ... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

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#30. 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.

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#31. The most important days in your life are the day you were born ... and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

#32. It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

Mark Twain

#33. She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

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#34. The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

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#35. We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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#36. Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.

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#37. Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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#38. Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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#39. Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

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#40. Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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#41. Sing like no one is listening, LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN HURT, dance like nobody's watcbing, and live like it's heaven on earth.

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#42. There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

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#43. Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born
a hundred million years
and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

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#44. Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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#45. There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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#46. 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.

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#47. Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi
Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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

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#49. The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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

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#51. The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

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#52. Life has two important dates - when you're born and when you find out why. - Mark Twain 1.

Gregory Benford

#53. I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Mark Twain

#54. Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.

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#55. You know my present way of life. Can you suggest any additions to it, in the way of crime, that will reasonably insure my going to some other place.

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#56. If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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#57. My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes - most of which never happened. Mark Twain

Jack Kornfield

#58. It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

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#59. The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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#60. My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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#61. Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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#62. If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

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#63. Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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#64. I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

Roman Coppola

#65. It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

Mark Twain

#66. Mr. Young observed that life was a sad, sad thing - "because the joy of every new marriage a man contracted was so apt to be blighted by the inopportune funeral of a less recent bride.

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#67. Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

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#68. Life is short, break the rules.

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#69. Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.

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#70. It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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#71. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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#72. Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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#73. No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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#74. He put his foot on it, and lifted one of the sleeves out with his teeth, and chewed and chewed at it, gradually taking it in, and all the while opening and closing his eyes in a kind of religious ecstasy, as if he had never tasted anything as good as an overcoat before, in his life.

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#75. All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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#76. You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

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#77. Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees, the outlines of the horizon, the forms of clouds, all give a pleasure as exquisite as the sweetest music to the ear famishing for it. The

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#78. Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

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#79. My financial views are of the most decided character, but they are not likely, perhaps, to increase my popularity with the advocates of inflation. I do not insist upon the special supremacy of rag money or hard money. The great fundamental principle of my life is to take any kind I can get.

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#80. When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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#81. There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life
life's "experiences"
are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never knew one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

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#82. I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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#83. There is no security in life, only opportunity.

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#84. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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#85. If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.
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Tony-Paul De Vissage

#86. When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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#87. All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure ... MARK TWAIN

Julia London

#88. We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

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#89. There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

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#90. You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

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#91. The Jabalites ... They worship no god; and if we in goodness of heart do send a missionary to show them the way of life, they listen with respect to all he hath to say, and then they eat him. This doth tend to hinder the spread of light.

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#92. It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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#93. I've been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened, Mark Twain once said.

Sharon Salzberg

#94. Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.

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#95. In this life, Satan, but in another? We shall meet in another, surely?"
Then, all tranquilly and soberly, he made the strange answer, "There is no other.

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#96. But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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#97. Is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual - he is a

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

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#99. I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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#100. Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

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