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Mark Twain is, of course, most known for his classic books Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But he was also one of the sharpest and funniest minds ever that could quickly get to the truth of human nature and the foolishness of everyday life without any sugar coating. So in today\u2019s post I want to share 110 of the most funny, inspirational and motivational Mark Twain quotes. I hope you\u2019ll find something here to make you and your friends and family laugh, to motivate you to go after your dreams and to simply give you a jolt of clarity and energy.

Funny Mark Twain Quotes on Stupidity, Life and Politics<\/h2> \u201cLet us be thankful for the fools. Because of them the rest of us could not succeed.\u201d \u201cSuppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.\u201d \u201cClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.\u201d \u201cNever argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.\u201d \u201cPoliticians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.\u201d \u201cIt is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.\u201d \u201cIf you don\u2019t read the newspaper, you\u2019re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you\u2019re misinformed.\u201d \u201cConsider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.\u201d \u201cA clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.\u201d \u201cI did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.\u201d \u201cWhen angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.\u201d \u201cGo to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.\u201d \u201cNo amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.\u201d \u201cWhy waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.\u201d \u201cIf voting made any difference, they wouldn\u2019t let us do it.\u201d \u201cAll generalizations are false, including this one.\u201d \u201cIn the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.\u201d \u201cThere is no distinctly American criminal class \u2013 except Congress.\u201d \u201cBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.\u201d \u201cGiving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I\u2019ve done it thousands of times.\u201d \u201cCauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.\u201d

Inspirational Mark Twain Quotes on Life, Travel and Love<\/h2> \u201cThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.\u201d \u201cTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn\u2019t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.\u201d \u201cI am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.\u201d \u201cThe best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.\u201d \u201cKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.\u201d \u201cLife is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.\u201d \u201cTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.\u201d \u201cGive every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.\u201d \u201cForgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.\u201d \u201cWhen you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.\u201d \u201cWorrying is like paying a debt you don\u2019t owe.\u201d \u201cDo not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.\u201d \u201cThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.\u201d \u201cWrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.\u201d \u201cTo get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.\u201d \u201cYou can\u2019t reason with your heart; it has its own laws and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t wake up a woman in love. Let her dream so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.\u201d \u201cThere was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.\u201d \u201cLife would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.\u201d \u201cNever allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.\u201d \u201cI do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.\u201d

Motivational Mark Twain Quotes and Wisdom for Success<\/h2> \u201cThe secret of getting ahead is getting started.\u201d \u201cContinuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.\u201d \u201cKeep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\u201d \u201cTo change your life, you need to change your priorities.\u201d \u201cDo the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.\u201d \u201cIf it\u2019s your job to eat a frog, it\u2019s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it\u2019s your job to eat two frogs, it\u2019s best to eat the biggest one first.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right.\u201d \u201cCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear \u2013 not absence of fear.\u201d \u201cDo the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.\u201d \u201cAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.\u201d \u201cThe dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.\u201d \u201cDo something every day that you don\u2019t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.\u201d \u201cWith courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.\u201d \u201cTo be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.\u201d \u201cThere are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.\u201d \u201cIf you want to change the future, you must change what you\u2019re doing in the present.\u201d \u201cFocus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.\u201d \u201cReality can be beaten with enough imagination.\u201d \u201cThunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.\u201d \u201cA person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.\u201d \u201cSuccess is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t wait. The time will never be just right.\u201d

Famous Mark Twain Quotes and Sayings<\/h2> \u201cIf you tell the truth, you don\u2019t have to remember anything.\u201d \u201cA lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.\u201d \u201cHistory doesn\u2019t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.\u201d \u201cGood friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.\u201d \u201cThe reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.\u201d \u201cThe human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.\u201d \u201cWhenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.\u201d \u201cTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn\u2019t.\u201d \u201cHow easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!\u201d \u201cAnger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.\u201d \u201cThe more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.\u201d \u201cLoyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.\u201d \u201cThere are lies, damned lies, and statistics.\u201d \u201cThe truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.\u201d \u201cEveryone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.\u201d \u201cOf all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.\u201d \u201cSanity and happiness are an impossible combination.\u201d \u201cI have never let my schooling interfere with my education.\u201d \u201cOne of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.\u201d \u201cIf you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.\u201d \u201cLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.\u201d

Short Mark Twain Quotes<\/h2> \u201cA man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.\u201d \u201cThe world owes you nothing. It was here first.\u201d \u201cAge is an issue of mind over matter. If you don\u2019t mind, it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d \u201cNever miss an opportunity to shut up.\u201d \u201cBuy land, they\u2019re not making it anymore.\u201d \u201cGolf is a good walk spoiled.\u201d \u201cName the greatest of all inventors. Accident.\u201d \u201cDenial ain\u2019t just a river in Egypt.\u201d \u201cAction speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.\u201d \u201cThe lack of money is the root of all evil.\u201d \u201cA man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.\u201d \u201cGet your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.\u201d \u201cNever put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.\u201d \u201cMan is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.\u201d \u201cSubstitute \u2018damn\u2019 every time you\u2019re inclined to write \u2018very\u2019; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.\u201d \u201cGood decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.\u201d \u201cThe worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.\u201d \u201cThe right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.\u201d \u201cWisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.\u201d \u201cThe trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.\u201d \u201cI can live for two months on a good compliment.\u201d \u201cIf we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.\u201d Want more Mark Twain and timeless wisdom?<\/strong> Then check out this one with my favorite 9 tips from Mark Twain<\/a>, this post with the best Dolly Parton quotes<\/a> and also this one with lots of Marcus Aurelius quotes<\/a>. <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n \n \n

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