Mark Twain – Page 8 – Best Quotes

If it's your job to eat a frog it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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

Mark Twain

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

Anger

When angry count to four when very angry swear.

Mark Twain

When angry count to four when very angry swear.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Author: Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Prophesy is a good line of business but it is full of risks.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

We have the best government that money can buy.

If it's your job to eat a frog it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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

When angry count to four when very angry swear.