Mark Twain

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder’s moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

If you have to eat a frog, don’t look at it for too long.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.

Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.