Category Mark Twain

Mark Twain says: “It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and

Mark Twain says: “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

Mark Twain says: “It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

Mark Twain says: “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.”

Mark Twain says: “How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.”

Mark Twain says: “Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”

Mark Twain says: “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody”

Mark Twain says: “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

Mark Twain says: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

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