Mark Twain Advice Quotations

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

There are no mistakes in life, there are only lessons to be learned: Adivce to the Youth.

Be Yourself is about the worst advice you can give to people.

A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry to excess.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.