Force Fail

January 30th, 2010 admin

Force Fail

“Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.” – Well-Known Quotes by Author Mark Twain

Mark Twain is perhaps the most well-known US novelist (Mark Twain Books New Zealand). Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Clemens. Clemens was born on November 30, 1835. Mark Twain died in 1910.

Mark Twain is most famous for his books “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884) and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876).

Twain was a talented writer and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected here some of his more famous quotations for your reading pleasure.

The Mark Twain Famous Quotes (more here):

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.

Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to.

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Force Fail.