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The house he built in Hartford, Connecticut in 1874. |
His boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri. (The white house on the right.)
Mark Twain Quotes:
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
A home without a cat--a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat--may be a perfect home perhaps--but how can you prove it?
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
He had no principles and was delightful company.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know it because I have tested it.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else's.
He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Not all of us can be optimists, but by carefully using all the opportunities that Providence puts in our way, we can all be bigamists.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing: it was here first.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines; sail away from the harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
