Mark Twain

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

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

Named must your fear be before banish it you can.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

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

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

You bring out the be(a)st in me. Polarized tension, a raw slash of claw, swathed softly in love. A peace of my mind in tumultuous chaotic razor-sharp clarity, impulsive wit to wisdom, mixing addictive shots of cocktail emotions in a full-spectrum experience.