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“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. – Notebook, 1898″ – A Collection of Quotations by Legendary Author Mark Twain

Mark Twain is one of the most famous US authors (Mark Twain Books). Mark Twain was actually the pen name of Samuel Clemens. He was born in 1835. Twain died in 1910 in Connecticut.

Twain is perhaps most well-known for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.

Twain was a well-regarded writer and humorist and is still often quoted in print and in speeches. We have collected here some of his most famous quotations for your reading pleasure.

The Famous Mark Twain Quotes (more) …

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth – he could not even lie.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, — which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and — watch that basket.

It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Why shoudn’t truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities.

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.

Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination

A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.

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

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.

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