Mark Twain

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

A crank is someone with a new idea – until it catches on.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Sorrow makes us children again.