Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
别到处说世界亏欠了你。世界什么都不欠你的，你还没出生它就在这儿了。
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
生活的成功需要两个因素：愚昧以及自信。
名声”如同是蒸气，“声望”如同是意外，在地球上唯一可以确定的事情是被遗忘掉。
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
阅读保健类书籍时要小心，你可能死于错误印刷。
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
别到处跟人抱怨这个世界欠你什么，这个世界什么都不欠你的。
“原则”是“偏见”的另一个名称。
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
人人都是月亮，都有决不让人知道的阴暗面。
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
当真理还正在穿鞋的时候，谎言就能走遍半个世界。
每个人就像一轮月亮，不愿意将黑暗的一面让别人看到。
有些崇拜我的人常常说我的头脑几乎有一只篮子那么大，不过他们不肯说出这只篮子的尺寸。 ——马克·吐温
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ”（勇敢并非没有恐惧，而是克服恐惧，战胜恐惧。） --马克·吐温
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.
远离那些企图让你丧失雄心的人吧。小人经常如此，而真正的伟人会让你觉得你也可以变得伟大。
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.
保持身体健康的唯一办法，就是吃点你不想吃的，喝点你不想喝的，以及做点你不愿做的事情。
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
垂钓爱情用心而不是用脑做诱饵。
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
老师教不好想当老师的人，统治者统治不好想当统治者的人。
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
罗马城之所以是这样的罗马城是因为市民就是这样的市民。
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，后才怕死。完全活过的人，随时都准备死。
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
善良是聋子能听，瞎子能看的语言。
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. 在所有的动物中，只有人类是残忍的。他们是唯一将快乐建立在制造痛苦之上的动物。 --Mark Twain 《犯罪心理》
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.
如果你收养了一只饥饿的狗，并且让它过上了舒服的日子，它将不会咬你。这便是狗与人最主要的区别。
即使闭起嘴看起来像个傻瓜，也比开口让人家确认你是傻瓜来得强 ——马克·吐温
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
理智真正的伟大之处在于它帮助我们与没有理智的人相处。
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
将愚人从他们所敬拜的锁链下解放出来是非常困难的。
There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.
有些人的思考只停留在表面。
If you are going through hell, keep going.
如果你正在经历炼狱，那就继续吧。
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
对民主最好的反驳就是和普通选民交谈五分钟
许多年轻人通过一个笨拙的——粗制滥造的谎言使自己受到了永久的伤害，这是不完善的教育所造成的轻率行为。有些权威人士主张年轻人根本不应说谎。当然，这话说得有点不必要地过头；然而，尽管我不会走得那么远，我却主张——而且我认为我是对的——年轻人必须克制自己，不去使用这项异乎寻常的技艺。 ——马克·吐温
Don't part with your illusions, When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.－Mark Twain.不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。 --马克·吐温
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
习惯就是习惯，谁也不能将其一下子扔出窗外，只能一步一步地引下楼。
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.
取得进展的秘诀就是开始；开始的秘诀就是将令人窒息的复杂任务，细化成可操作的任务，然后开始做第一件。
