Monday, October 27, 2008

20 quotes of Mark Twain

Came across these hard hitting quotes by Mark Twain from Listverse....

1. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

2. An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.

3. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

4. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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

6. Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

7. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

8. Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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

10. I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

11. I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

12. I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

13. In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

14. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

15. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

16. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

17. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

18. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

19. Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

20. We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.

My favourite one is "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt". Oh! How I wish so many assholes I have met in life read this! But like Mark Twain has said - "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."

2 comments:

  1. I've always loved the no:5 one. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    For me that is very close to my heart.

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  2. Yeah read that about Satyricon on the hardcopy of RSJ.....

    Yeah, the world was always there first dude....it goes for everyone....even the victor and the vanquished...its for both these bastards to realise....the sooner you do, the faster you can get on with life!!!!

    Cheeeeers!!

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