So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
It liberates the vandal to travel you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Mark Twain Favorite Mark Twain Quotes On Travel Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. God created war so that Americans would learn geography. I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. Mark Twainĭon’t go around saying the world owes you a living. And suppose you were a member of Congress. Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. Mark TwainĪ lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. 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. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well. If books are not good company, where shall I find it? - Mark TwainĮvery person is a book, each year a chapter. Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. My books are water those of the great geniuses is wine. Mark Twainīooks are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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. Mark Twain Powerful Mark Twain Quotes On Books Mark Twainĭon't say the old lady screamed. It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them. Mark Twainįamiliarity breeds contempt and children. There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting. Mark TwainĬivilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. But for them, the rest of us could not succeed. Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. Mark Twainįew things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. Obscurity and competence that is the life that is best worth living. Inside of the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. There was never yet an uninteresting life. Part of the secret to success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark TwainĪll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure. I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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