Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

The most you get is what you ask for.

If she doesn’t acknowledge what happened, then how can we trust that she is going to be different in the future?

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

If we had more justice there would be less need of charity.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

If gold rust what shall the iron do?

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.