Mark Twain Quotes and its meanings

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

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

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

We have the best government that money can buy.

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

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

If you tell the truth, you dont have to remember anything.

If you tell the truth, you dont have to remember anything.

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

A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on.

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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

You cant depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus.

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

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

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

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

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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

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

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.

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

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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

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

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

If you tell the truth, you dont have to remember anything.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

If you tell the truth, you dont have to remember anything.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

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

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.