{"id":2000,"date":"2010-07-16T16:34:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T06:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2010-07-16T16:34:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T06:34:58","slug":"mark-twain-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/mark-twain-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If voting made any difference they wouldn&#8217;t let us do it.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.<\/p>\n<p>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 be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.<\/p>\n<p>Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Every generalization is false, including this one.<\/p>\n<p>In religion and politics, people&#8217;s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.<\/p>\n<p>Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.<\/p>\n<p>A classic is something that everybody praises and nobody has read.<\/p>\n<p>Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.<\/p>\n<p>I have found solace in profanity unexcelled even by prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute &#8220;damn&#8221; every time you&#8217;re inclined to write &#8220;very&#8221;; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/refspace.com\/quotes\/Mark_Twain\" target=\"blank\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If voting made any difference they wouldn&#8217;t let us do it. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn&#8217;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. Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/mark-twain-posts\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quirky-weird-funny"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}