Mark Twain

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think – yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.

Dr. Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and every thing that happins to me from now on..

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Those who marry for money end up EARNING it anyway.

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.