Life Mark Twain Quotes

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. — Mark Twain

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. — Mark Twain

Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living. — Mark Twain

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure ... MARK TWAIN — Julia London

The most important day of your life is not the day you were born, it's the day you realize why!

Mark Twain — Rand Charles

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time. — Mark Twain

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. — Mark Twain

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened. — Mark Twain

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. — Mark Twain

Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do. — Mark Twain

Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily. — Mark Twain

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life. — Mark Twain

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. — Mark Twain

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person. — Mark Twain

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who have gone on to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life. — Mark Twain

Don't dream your life, but live your dream — Mark Twain

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart

You know my present way of life. Can you suggest any additions to it, in the way of crime, that will reasonably insure my going to some other place. — Mark Twain

I've had a very difficult life. Fortunately, most of it didn't happen. — Mark Twain

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours. — Mark Twain

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad. — Mark Twain

I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows what they want. — Mark Twain

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. — Mark Twain

I've been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened, Mark Twain once said. — Sharon Salzberg

Death is to life as heaven is to hell they're both dependent on each other — Mark Twain

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation. — Mark Twain

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession. — Mark Twain

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. — Mark Twain

The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell. — Mark Twain

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. — Mark Twain

There is no such thing as an ordinary life. — Mark Twain

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause. — Mark Twain

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened. — Mark Twain

Life has two important dates - when you're born and when you find out why. - Mark Twain 1. — Gregory Benford

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.
Mark Twain — Tony-Paul De Vissage

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. — Mark Twain

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do. — Mark Twain

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you want. — Mark Twain

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. — Mark Twain

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. — Mark Twain

The most important days in your life are the day you were born ... and the day you find out why. — Mark Twain

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. — Mark Twain

Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin? — Stephen Leather

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. — Mark Twain

Is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual - he is a — Mark Twain

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life. — Mark Twain

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. — Mark Twain

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful. — Mark Twain

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

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities. — Mark Twain

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life; — Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. — Laini Taylor

It is wiser to find out than to suppose. — Mark Twain

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen. — Mark Twain

Sing like no one is listening, LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN HURT, dance like nobody's watcbing, and live like it's heaven on earth. — Mark Twain

No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting. — Mark Twain

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it. — Mark Twain

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day. — Mark Twain

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. — Mark Twain

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. — Mark Twain

The only certainties in life are death and taxes. — Mark Twain

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way. — Mark Twain

My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes - most of which never happened. Mark Twain — Jack Kornfield

Life is short, break the rules. — Mark Twain

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it. — Mark Twain

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first. — Mark Twain

There is no security in life, only opportunity. — Mark Twain

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away. — Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. — Mark Twain

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them. — Mark Twain

All life demands change, variety, contrast - else there is small zest to it. — Mark Twain

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened. — Mark Twain

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ... most of which has never happened. — Mark Twain

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. — Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life. — Mark Twain

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased. — Mark Twain

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has. — Mark Twain

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. — Mark Twain

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. — Mark Twain

If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves. — Mark Twain

I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction — Mark Twain

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds. — Mark Twain

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one. — Mark Twain

Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter. — Mark Twain

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet. — Mark Twain

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. — Mark Twain

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young. — Mark Twain

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. — Mark Twain

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Mark Twain

You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would. — Mark Twain

There's no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy. — Mark Twain

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can. — Mark Twain

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. — Mark Twain

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you — Mark Twain

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. — Narcotics Anonymous

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. — Mark Twain

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. — Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain