Mark Twain

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Earth laughs in flowers.

It always seems impossible until it is done.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.