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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:46 pm Post subject: Samuel Langhorne Clemens wisdom |
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens wisdom
https://www.merlinsilk.com/category/history/
better known as Mark Twain
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.â€
“A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.â€
“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.â€
“All generalizations are false, including this one.â€
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.â€
“Do not have sex with a girl who is too strongly attached to you. If this attachment is not mutual, trust me it ends breaking plates on your head.â€
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.â€
“Don’t wrestle with pigs. you both get dirty and the pig likes it.â€
“Each man is afraid of his neighbor’s disapproval – a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.â€
“Every person is a book, each year a chapter.â€
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.â€
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.â€
“Human beings are the only creatures who blush – or who need to.â€
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.â€
“I deal with temptation by yielding to it.â€
“I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.â€
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. if you do, you’re misinformed.â€
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.â€
“If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.â€
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.â€
“Its not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.â€
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.â€
“Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.â€
“Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that makes you smile.â€
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.â€
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.â€
“One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.â€
“Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.â€
“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.â€
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.â€
“The more I know people, the more I love my dog.â€
“The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.â€
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.â€
“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.â€
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.â€
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.â€
“When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.â€
“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.â€
“You meet people who forget you. you forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can’t forget. Those are your friends.â€
“You want to be very careful about lying, otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.†|
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