馬克·吐溫，是美國的幽默大師、小說家、作家，也是著名演說家，威廉·福克納稱讚馬克·吐溫為“第一位真正的美國作家，我們都是繼承他而來”。馬克吐溫以高超的幽默、機智與名氣，被稱為美國最知名人士之一，曾被推崇為“美國文壇鉅子”。

1、It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
最好閉上嘴，讓別人認為你傻，而決不把嘴巴張開去解答所有的疑難。

2、Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
別到處說世界虧欠了你。世界什麼都不欠你的，你還沒出生它就在這兒了。

3、To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
生活的成功需要兩個因素：愚昧以及自信。

4、If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
如果你收養了一隻饑餓的狗，並且讓它過上了舒服的日子，它將不會咬你。這便是狗與人最主要的區別。

5、Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
習慣就是習慣，誰也不能將其一下子扔出窗外，只能一步一步地引下樓。

6、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.
取得進展的秘訣就是開始;開始的秘訣就是將令人窒息的複雜任務，細化成可操作的任務，然後開始做第一件。

7、Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
善良是一種聾子能聽見、盲人能看見的語言。

8、The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
讓自己高興起來的最好辦法就是設法讓別人高興起來。

9、There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things.The first group is less crowded.
世界上主要有兩類人。第一類人有所成就，第二類人號稱自己有所成就。第一類人不如第二類人那麼多。

10、Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
人人都是月亮，都有決不讓人知道的陰暗面。

11、I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
我總是等機會錯過了才發現我曾有過機會。

12、Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
皺紋應該只是微笑留下的印記。

13、The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
人類有一件真正有力的武器，那就是笑。

14、Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
如果我們能在80歲的時候出生，然後慢慢走向18歲，那生活將會幸福無比。

15、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.2
20年後，讓你覺得更失望的不是你做過的事情，而是你沒有做過的事情。所以，解開帆索，從安全的港灣裡揚帆出行吧。乘著信風，去探索，去夢想，去發現!

16、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.
遠離那些企圖讓你喪失雄心的人吧。小人經常如此，而真正的偉人會讓你覺得你也可以變得偉大。

17、The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
保持身體健康的唯一辦法，就是吃點你不想吃的，喝點你不想喝的，以及做點你不願做的事情。

18、When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
垂釣愛情用心而不是用腦做誘餌。

19、A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
一個人的性格可以到他交談中使用的形容詞中去瞭解。

20、Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
首先弄到事實，然後你就可以隨心所欲地把他們扭曲。

21、Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
真正偉大的人讓你產生你也能偉大起來的感覺。

22、The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
你解釋越多，我越難理解。

23、Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
今天顯然什麼也不會發生。

24、The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
先是怕生，後才怕死。完全活過的人，隨時都準備死。

25、The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
越是禁止的事物越流行。

26、Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
永遠不要跟蠢人爭論，他們會把你的層次降到同他們一樣低並用他們所謂的經驗教育你。

27、The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
狗是真正的紳士，我希望去他的天堂，而不是人類的。

28、Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
勇氣就是抵禦恐懼的能力，是駕馭它，而不是消滅它。

29、It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
愚弄别人比使他们相信他们已经被骗更容易。

30、Give everyday the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
把每天都過成你生命中最美好的一天。

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