Mark Twain

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

The person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn’t, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn’t likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

All colors will agree in the dark.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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

We falsely attribute to men a determined character, putting together all their yesterdays and averaging them, we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support, it is worse than a large family, he is the silent poor indeed.