Mark Twain

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything. That makes you smile.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

By indignities men come to dignities.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.