Mark Twain

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Genius Borrows nobly.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

Whatever limits us we call fate.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

The hottest love has the coldest end.