Mark Twain

Mark Twain

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter."
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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter."
Mark Twain
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
Mark Twain
"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace."
Mark Twain
"The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not."
Mark Twain
"When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum."
Mark Twain
"Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession."
Mark Twain
"The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul."
Mark Twain
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
Mark Twain
"We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away."
Mark Twain
"There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
Mark Twain
"The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again."
Mark Twain
"A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse."
Mark Twain
"I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55."
Mark Twain
"Truth is stranger than fiction..."
Mark Twain
"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
Mark Twain
"But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time."
Mark Twain
"I can last two months on a good compliment."
Mark Twain
"Distance lends enchantment to the view."
Mark Twain
"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt."
Mark Twain
"Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves."
Mark Twain
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