Mark Twain Quotes - Page 5

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Никога не съм позволявал на училището да попречи на образованието ми.

Human nature is all alike.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;

A proof once established is better left so.

So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.

Забелязвам, че колкото по-здраво работя, толкова по-голям късмет имам.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.