It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Misattributed quotes — Mark Twain
1835–1910 United States
34 quotes
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
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"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Misattributed While this quote does appear in Twain's posthumous The Refuge of the Derelicts (1905)
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
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Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.
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If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it.
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It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Misattributed According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998)
When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence.
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The ancients stole all our great ideas.
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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mark Twain (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.