Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
1885 Copy quote. Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. Mark Twain. Love, Inspirational, Life. 1804 Copy quote. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain. Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart. 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.
Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912) Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said. Mark Twain. Truth, Honesty, Politics. To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals. Mark Twain.
Mark Twain. Ignorance, World, Bliss. Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so. Mark Twain. Ignorance, Knowing, Not Knowing. The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so. Mark Twain. Ignorance, Too Much, Trouble.
The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 7. The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. Mark Twain. Happiness, Wisdom, Philosophy. Mark Twain (2013).
366 Copy quote. Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness. Mark Twain. Funny, Hilarious, Witty. 93 Copy quote. If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. Mark Twain. Nails, Hammers, Tools. 47 Copy quote.
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. Mark Twain. Country, Travel, Heaven. Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980).
Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”. If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right. Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009).
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Mark Twain. Motivational, Work, Yoga. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876) Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. Mark Twain.