541 Quotations by Mark Twain
						
					
					
- 401. The report of my death was an exaggeration. 

 
- 402. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. 

 
- 403. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. 

 
- 404. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your compl ... 

 
- 405. The secret of success is to make your vocation your vacation. 

 
- 406. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. 

 
- 407. The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha ... 

 
- 408. The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you ... 

 
- 409. The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.  ... 

 
- 410. The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. 

 
- 411. The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. 

 
- 412. The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we wou ... 

 
- 413. The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what yo ... 

 
- 414. The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. 

 
- 415. The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. 

 
- 416. There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. 

 
- 417. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. 

 
- 418. There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savag ... 

 
- 419. There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence. 

 
- 420. There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. 

 
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