Mark Twain

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day will be wonderful.

Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.

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.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

To succeed in life, you need to things: ignorance and confidence.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Be an opener of doors.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

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

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

Courage is exhilarating.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means – one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

Hurricanes are named after people, baby, and I hope you know that falling in love with me will be so much more treacherous than boarding up the windows and waiting for me to pass.

These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.

Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.