Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.

If you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day will be wonderful.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

The Country is both the Philosopher’s Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.