The secret of making progress is to get started. Mark Twain More Quotes by Mark Twain More Quotes From Mark Twain Travel is lethal to prejudice. Mark Twain prejudice I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. Mark Twain friendship life funny Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed. Mark Twain uninformed news inspirational History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes. Mark Twain rhyme sometimes history Honesty: The best of all the lost arts. Mark Twain honesty lost art Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. Mark Twain patriotism ethics men If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter. Mark Twain learning leadership writing Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain sarcastic life funny The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. Mark Twain race truth lying Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement. Mark Twain pride love character What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Mark Twain rich men way Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno. Mark Twain men science years If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. Mark Twain swimming ducks heart I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. Mark Twain flower simple writing There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell. Mark Twain degrees christian country The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain humorous inspirational funny Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. Mark Twain dog education school It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. Mark Twain brother heart men Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself. Mark Twain miracle knowing love Some of the worst things in my life never even happened. Mark Twain worst-things happened worst
