 If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Category Archives: Mark Twain
Mark Twain – Age is mind over matter
| Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – In the way of education
| I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – Pessimism and optimism at 48
| The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – A lie can travel half way. . .
| A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – Disappointment by things you didn’t do
| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – Always do right
| Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – The change of an ignorant father
| When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – The two most important days
| The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – Loyalty to one’s country
| My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – If you tell the truth
| If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Mark Twain – Keep away from people who belittle
| 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.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
