Mark Twain Bit Quotations

Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off