What is your favorite Mark Twain quote?

Some of my favorites:

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

“The older I get, the faster I ran when I was a boy.”

“If we were meant to talk more than we were to listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.”

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”

I have many favorites of his, but I think the overall winner is this:

“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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Runners-up:

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”

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

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”

i like ”

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

and

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

another good one is

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

and one more

e never killed a man, but I’ve read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

“If you take in a starving dog, feed him and make him prosperous, he shall never bite you. This is the principle difference between animal and man.” – Mark Twain

A lie can shuttle a million/2 way international mutually as the fact is putting on its shoes and that one from Huck Finn the place Huck found out he wanted to shop Jim yet i dont member what he mentioned… grr

He was one of my favorites and had many funny ones but this one about war is so true:

“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out…and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for “the universal brotherhood of man”–with his mouth.”

Another good one is “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it!”

How about “The news of my death is greatly exaggerated.”

Being a golf-widow, this one is near to my heart: “Golf is a nice walk spoiled.”

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I have two.

“Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.”

“Man has found the one true religion, hundreds of them.”

Everyone complains about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.