MARK TWAIN QUOTE MY FATHER

“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.”

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”

“Classic: A book which people praise and don’t read.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” BEST QUOTES FOR IN ENGLISH

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

“In a good bookroom, you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”

“It is easier to stay out than get out.”

“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.”

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”