Mark Twain’s Quotes

Mark Twain’s Quotes

· Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

· To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

· You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination.
- "A Fable"

· I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says--"Yes; the little ones does."
- Tom Sawyer Abroad

· Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1898

· Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness-machine combined. The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle. For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen.
- The Mysterious Stranger

· One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques--especially to mosques.
- Innocents Abroad

· When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.
- Notebook, 1898

Mark Twain’s Quotes

· Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

· To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

· You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination.
- "A Fable"

· I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says--"Yes; the little ones does."
- Tom Sawyer Abroad

· Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1898

· Every man is a suffering-machine and a happiness-machine combined. The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle. For every happiness turned out in the one department the other stands ready to modify it with a sorrow or a pain--maybe a dozen.
- The Mysterious Stranger

· One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques--especially to mosques.
- Innocents Abroad

· When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.
- Notebook, 1898

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· Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing; no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out. And it is delightful to have it that way, it makes the world so interesting. If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out, and I don't know but more so.
- Eve's Diary

· Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

· To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
- Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc

· There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.
- A Tramp Abroad

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