Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place you belong.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

It’s hard to have it all. And if you’re compromising through one phase of your journey, you’re not giving it all up, you’re compromising for that phase

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

All generalizations are false, including this one.