Mark Twain

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist’s custom.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Your feelings? To hell with your feelings!

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

There it is: it doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.