Mark Twain

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

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

I do not believe that material accumulation is the whole of success, and on the other hand I do not believe that true success ever excludes a sufficient possession of wealth-but wealth as a means, not as an end.

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Whenever you get the idea that you are ‘fixed’ or that anything is ‘fixed’ for life, you’d better get ready for a sudden change.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

When you embark for strange places don’t leave any of yourself safely at the shore… Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people.