The right word may…
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) More »
Tag: Mark Twain
“A classic”:
“A classic”: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910): Speech, quoting Professor Caleb Winchester, 20 Nov 1900, Nineteenth Century Club, NYC More »
Courage is…
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by Alexandra ❤️A life without animals is not worth living❤️ from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from… More »
Quitting smoking is…
![IMAGE: Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times. [Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/mark-twain-2914114_640_addict-84430_640-200x133.jpg)
Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times. [Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.] – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by dorze from Pixabay)… More »
Education: the path…
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by Mystic Art Design from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
If you don’t read…
![IMAGE: If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. [If you don't read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/quote-5616922_640-200x125.png)
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed. [If you don't read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.] – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by… More »
The best way to…
![IMAGE: The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. [The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/friends-536896_640-200x150.jpg)
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. [The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.] – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by ErikaWittlieb from Pixabay)… More »
Ignorance…
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle-headedness — and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all. That is what I was at nineteen and twenty. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) “Letter to Jacob H. Burrough， 1… More »
A clear conscience…
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) / (If you think you have a clear conscience, you are suffering from bad memory because you cannot remember the not so nice… More »
The man who doesn’t…
The man who doesn’t read good books has no over the man who can’t read them. – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) (Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
![IMAGE: I never lose. I either win or learn. [Either I win or I learn.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/nelson-mandela-539834_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: Nothing is hard to a willing mind. [Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.] / Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/keyboard-417093_417090_417092_417095_640-100x66.jpg)
![IMAGE: Train every day and be prepared for opportunities that may come at any time. [Train daily and be ready for opportunities as you never know when they will come.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/martial-arts-291051_640trim480-100x75.jpg)