Mark Twain
- Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
(topic: age)
- We (Americans) are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
(topic: America)
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practise either of them.
(topic: America)
- When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
(topic: anger)
- October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
(topic: business)
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
(topic: courage)
- The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
(topic: cruelty)
- A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential--there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.
(topic: death)
- The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
(topic: friendship)
- There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one--keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
(topic: happiness)
- You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
(topic: imagination)
- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
(topic: indecision)
- Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
(topic: jealousy)
- 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.
(topic: knowledge)
- Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.
(topic: loyalty)
- Loves seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
(topic: marriage)
- There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
(topic: pessimism)
- I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
(topic: travel)
- Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
(topic: truth)
- Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
(topic: truth)
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