{"id":281,"date":"2010-02-02T02:58:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T07:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emprendedor.com\/2015\/?p=281"},"modified":"2015-02-02T03:01:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T08:01:19","slug":"mark-twain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emprendedor.site\/2015\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mark<\/a>

Mark Twain (1835-1910)<\/p><\/div>\n

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.<\/span><\/p>\n

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.<\/span><\/p>\n

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.<\/span><\/p>\n

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.<\/span><\/p>\n

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.<\/span><\/p>\n

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.<\/span><\/p>\n

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

All generalizations are false, including this one.<\/span><\/p>\n

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.<\/span><\/p>\n

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.<\/span><\/p>\n

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.<\/span><\/p>\n

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Better a broken promise than none at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.<\/span><\/p>\n

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?<\/span><\/p>\n

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.<\/span><\/p>\n

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.<\/span><\/p>\n

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.<\/span><\/p>\n

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.<\/span><\/p>\n

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.<\/span><\/p>\n

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.<\/span><\/p>\n

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.<\/span><\/p>\n

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.<\/span><\/p>\n

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.<\/span><\/p>\n

Golf is a good walk spoiled.<\/span><\/p>\n

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.<\/span><\/p>\n

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can live for two months on a good compliment.<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.<\/span><\/p>\n

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.<\/span><\/p>\n

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.<\/span><\/p>\n

I never let schooling interfere with my education.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve never let my school interfere with my education.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is easier to stay out than get out.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.<\/span><\/p>\n

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.<\/span><\/p>\n

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.<\/span><\/p>\n

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.<\/span><\/p>\n

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.<\/span><\/p>\n

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.<\/span><\/p>\n

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial \u00abwe.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

Substitute \u00abdamn\u00bb every time you’re inclined to write \u00abvery\u00bb; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah… didn’t miss the boat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.<\/span><\/p>\n

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.<\/span><\/p>\n

The lack of money is the root of all evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.<\/span><\/p>\n

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.<\/span><\/p>\n

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.<\/span><\/p>\n

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Public is merely a multiplied \u00abme.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.<\/span><\/p>\n

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.<\/span><\/p>\n

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.<\/span><\/p>\n

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.<\/span><\/p>\n

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.<\/span><\/p>\n

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.<\/span><\/p>\n

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.<\/span><\/p>\n

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all alike, on the inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have the best government that money can buy.<\/span><\/p>\n

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.<\/span><\/p>\n

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.<\/span><\/p>\n

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.<\/span><\/p>\n

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.<\/span><\/p>\n

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.<\/span><\/p>\n

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

When in doubt tell the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.<\/span><\/p>\n

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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