Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

I always feel excited when I can do something that’s about what I believe in.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.