Mark Twain

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

You show your worth by what you seek! – Rumi

I am a sky gazer. The sky, it pulls at me. Its amazing eternal expanse of breathtaking beauty calls me back to my senses, stretches my awareness, soothes my eyes, opens my heart, stills me. I feel a soft soul longing to be up there, in the vastness, amongst the clouds that are alive and billow and skud and glow; metamorphosing from perfection into perfection. A constantly changing canvas brushed by magic.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.