Mark Twain Quotes

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

Mark Twain

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Old
  • Trees

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
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• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
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  • Fear
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• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • World
  • American

• People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Name

• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
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• I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • Father
  • Baseball

• People are going to say what they want to say.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
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  • Say

• I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

  

  Barack Obama
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• 'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

  

  Laila Robins
  • People
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• I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
  • Fame
  • Lifestyle

• People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

  

  Pat Riley
  • People
  • Deserve
  • Begin

• The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Fear
  • Small

• You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • People
  • Giving
  • Hate

• That was when she recognized love: this torture on seeing someone, the greater torture when he was out of sight, in short, a torture without end.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • She

• Divestitures have long been the preferred remedy for horizontal mergers, where there's an overlap between the two companies. Airlines, for example, may have to sell routes or airport gates where the two airlines compete; cable operators may have to sell operations in cities where both companies operate.

  

  James B. Stewart
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• Once I got married and had my children, I left the life. That's why I can walk away from this, i don't have to be looking for love. When you play to 100,000 people and you come off stage and there's nobody there for you, that's the saddest day of your life.

  

  Errol Brown Hot Chocolate
  • Life
  • Children
  • Play

• If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Life
  • Work
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• It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

  

  Mark Twain
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Fool