Saturday, June 27, 2009

Mark Twain Quotes

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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