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Mark Twain Quotes

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.''


Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.


If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.


I admire him [Cecil Rhodes], I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.


Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.


By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.


Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.


The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.


Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Graduation Quotes

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.


A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.


When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.


Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.


A folksong is a song that nobody has written.