Mark Twain

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.

I was the same old me. Just like the Moon yesterday. But because of all the other factors that came to play, the darkness, the brightness, the blood red color. They all were a reflection, a projection due to the perfect set of circumstances. The Moon was still the Moon. But it was still labeled the Super Blue Blood Moon, Just so we can have some understanding, but, again I’ll state, the Moon was still just the Moon, just like I was still just me. Whatever you project on me, and I reflect back, doesn’t then make me become a new person, it’s just a reflection of your projection. I am still just me.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.