Mark Twain

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man’s title to fame.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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

To know fulfillment, nourish what is for the belly and not the eye.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.