Mark Twain

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward-you will never get her full confidence again.

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

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Language is the archives of history.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Always seeking acceptance from others, searching for belonging. Striving for individuality, yet wanting to fit in. Never understanding that acceptance for one’s own individuality make all of that redundant.