Mark Twain quotes

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

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

I don't have a fave one, there are too many!


"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-- Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-- Mark Twain

"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work."
-- Mark Twain

It isn't the sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's the important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages are high in fact or only high in name.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court- Mark Twain

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
- Mark Twain's Notebook- Mark Twain

I don't know too many of his quotes, but my friend had this rock in her house with one of them, "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no say in society." (or something like that), I liked that one.

I went to dinner, which was served in a small private room of the club with the usual piano and fiddlers present to make conversation difficult and comfort impossible.
- Mark Twain in Eruption

i herd him say u suck. belive me man i was there

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

Only one creature cannot be made a slave to the lash. That one is the cat.