“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Author
Mark Twain
1835–1910159 quotes
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel."
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“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Never let333 your schooling interfere with your education.”
“The more I learn about human nature, the more I like my dog.”
“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”
“Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.”
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, d--n lies, and statistics.”
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
“I've never let my school interfere with my education.”
“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”