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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,579 people liked it

"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."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
8,087 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,301 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,797 people liked it

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing
1,591 people liked it

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

tags: censorship, food
1,059 people liked it

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
— Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs
500 people liked it

"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
— Mark Twain

461 people liked it

"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
417 people liked it

"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
169 people liked it

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
— Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness
159 people liked it

"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory."
— Mark Twain

tags: conscience, humor
149 people liked it

"Denial is much more then an Egyptian River."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
123 people liked it

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. "
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, success
134 people liked it

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
— Mark Twain

103 people liked it

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
— Mark Twain

tags: honors
94 people liked it

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
80 people liked it

"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."
— Mark Twain

tags: creation, humor
77 people liked it

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. "
— Mark Twain

82 people liked it

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."
— Mark Twain

70 people liked it

"Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most."
— Mark Twain

69 people liked it

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."
— Mark Twain

58 people liked it

"Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
57 people liked it

"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense."
— Mark Twain

tags: intellect, writing
54 people liked it

"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."
— Mark Twain

43 people liked it

"We are all stupid, just on different subjects"
— Mark Twain

46 people liked it

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
— Mark Twain

36 people liked it

"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."
— Mark Twain

tags: duels
36 people liked it

"'Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.""
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
37 people liked it

"If we were supposed to talk more than listen we would have been given two mouths and one ear."
— Mark Twain

tags: listening, speach
36 people liked it

"Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it."
— Mark Twain

tags: writing
34 people liked it

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
— Mark Twain

tags: love
27 people liked it

"I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
23 people liked it

"Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion."
— Mark Twain

20 people liked it

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: activism, progress, reasonable, unreasonable
142 people liked it

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
— George Bernard Shaw

47 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,546 people liked it

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friends
2,343 people liked it

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

576 people liked it

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dark, stars
393 people liked it

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational, life
381 people liked it

"The earth laughs in flowers."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: flowers, laughter
159 people liked it

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: solitude
72 people liked it

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

59 people liked it

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational, luck
39 people liked it

"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

35 people liked it

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: education
13 people liked it

"Nature hates calculators."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: calculators, nature
15 people liked it

"Hitch your wagon to a star."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

10 people liked it

"All I have seen leads me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

8 people liked it

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