Mark Twain Quotations

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As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Writing]

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Writing]

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Writing]

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Writing]

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Ignorance]

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Humor]

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [History]

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Golf]

It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Golf]

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Random]

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Grammar]

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Education]

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	more quotations on [Education]

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Education]

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Luck]

The very best thing in all this world that can befall a man is to be born lucky.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Luck]

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Marriage]

All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Perspective]

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Perspective]

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
	- Mark Twain	more quotations on [Exercise]

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