“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
Mark Twain Quotes About Life
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
“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.”
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
“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.”
“‘Classic’—a book which people praise and don’t read.”
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.”
“The funniest things are forbidden.”
“There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.”
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
“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.”
“Never argue with stupid people; they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
“Most men are dead at 27, we just bury them at 72.”
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
“The truth must be served like a coat, and not threw in the face like a wet towel.”
“Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.”
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
“Only two things we will regret on the deathbed, that we are little loved and little travelled.”
“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.”
“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”
“Wrinkles merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
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.
- “Life: we laugh and laugh, then cry and cry, then feebler laugh, then die.”
- “There is no sadder thing than a young pessimist than perhaps an old optimist.”
- “What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.”
- “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.”
- “There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else’s.”
- “An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
- “Nothing so needs reforming more than other people’s habits.”
- “Don’t put too much faith in the passing stranger.”
- “Poor old Methuselah, how did he manage to stand it so long?”
- “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice.”
- “Human life is maliciously planned with one principal object in view: to make you do all the different kinds of things you particularly don’t want to do.”
- “Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.”
- “The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.”
- “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
- “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
- “Architects cannot teach nature anything.”
- “Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
- “We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.”
- “There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
- “It is good to obey all the rules when you’re young, so you’ll have the strength to break them when you’re old.”