Mark Twain Quotes About Inspiration

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  • Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

    Funny  
    Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.684, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
  • I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

    Funny  
    The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 7
  • It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

    Funny  
    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation
  • I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.61, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

  • Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

    Prayer  
    Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
  • It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • 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 (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press
  • Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

    Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884
  • Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.94, Courier Corporation
  • Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

    c.1897 Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935).
  • Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

    Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation
  • I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

  • There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson "A Whisper to the Reader," "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
  • He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.129, Xist Publishing
  • All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

    Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine (2014). “The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine”, p.846, e-artnow
  • I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

    Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”
  • Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.188, Courier Corporation
  • It is easier to stay out than get out.

    Following the Equator ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)
  • Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

  • Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.125, Courier Corporation
  • The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

    "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.
  • I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

  • A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag
  • The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

    Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.50, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
  • To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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