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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Mark Twain

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Mark Twain

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Mark Twain

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Mark Twain

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Mark Twain

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Mark Twain

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Mark Twain

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Mark Twain

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Mark Twain

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Mark Twain

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mark Twain

When in doubt tell the truth.

Mark Twain

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Mark Twain

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Mark Twain

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Mark Twain

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Mark Twain

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Mark Twain

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Mark Twain

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Mark Twain

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Mark Twain

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain