Mark Twain Proverbs

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."

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

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

5 comments:

  1. I think he's one of the wisest men to ever live.

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  2. I will butcher it, but my favorite of his was something like:

    It is amazing how much my father learned from when I was 18 until I turned 21.

    It was something like this and it was disturbingly true!

    God Bless
    Doug

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  3. Here's the quote Doug:

    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”

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  4. KB,

    Yes! That's the one... truer words were rately spoken,

    God Bless
    Doug

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