Mark Twain

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remov ...

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which ...

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any tim ...

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.