These famous Mark Twain quotes will motivate, inspire and amuse you.
Mark Twain is an icon of American literature nearly every high school student has read at least one of his books.
Samuel Longhorne Clemmens was born in 1835 in Florida Missouri. He is most famous;y know for his two books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
During his day, Mark Twain was probably the most famous celebrity alive.
His name, "Mark Twain", came from his years on the riverboat, where two fathoms or "safe water" was marked by calling "mark twain".
Enjoy his amusing and unique quotes below:
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
"There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting."
"Broad, wholesome, charitable views ... can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth."
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way."
"It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."
"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does all the work."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't 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."
