Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

A man’s house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential – there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.

You’ll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Do or do not. There is no try.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.