81 result(s) for Mark Twain Quotes About Life.
"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."
"20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do."
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
"The truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist."
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no innate disinclination on the part of any human being to be a little evil."
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we may learn first to do with diligence."
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."
"Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile."
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
"Life is all about how you handle Plan B."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bark at you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."
"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds, blowing from all four corners of heaven."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't."
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter."
"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."
"Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly. Laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile."
"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to share it with."
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"The best part of a man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
"Life is short, break the rules."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only find a good friend or two."
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
"There are two eternal truths: the first is that you cannot alter the past, and the second is that anything can happen in the future."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
"The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas."
"You can’t lose a thing if you never had it."
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."
"Life is just one damn thing after another."
"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, nothing its the way things should be."
"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
"When in doubt, tell the truth."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
"Life is short, short as a half-taken breath."
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."
"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."
"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
"You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
"Actions speak louder than words but not nearly as often."
"I am not an American, I am the American."
"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 fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
"We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t."
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
"The older I get, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much."
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
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