Mark Twain Quotes

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."

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

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"Life would be infinitely happier if we were born at eighty."

"New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks."

"Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe."

"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles—by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it."

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

"Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for."