October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. 
- Mark Twain

On a recently deceased politician -- I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot.
Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain

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. 
- Mark Twain

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. 
- Mark Twain

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. 
- Mark Twain

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit. 
- Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. 
- Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the fragrance a violet sheds on the heal that crushes it.
- Mark Twain

If you send a fool to college, you get back an educated fool.

- Mark Twain

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
- Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosper, he will not bite you...
...this is the principle difference between man and a dog.
- Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

The best throw at dice is to throw them away.
- Mark Twain

When a boy turns 13, seal him in a barrel and feed him through a knot hole.
When he turns 16, plug up the hole.
- Mark Twain

Thousands of geniuses live and die every year undiscovered -- either by themselves or others.
- Mark Twain

Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house. 

- Mark Twain 

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them

- Mark Twain

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- Mark Twain 

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain 

Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- Mark Twain

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
- Mark Twain 

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
- Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Mark Twain