Quotes from Mark Twain

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

It is better to give than receive- especially advice

Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery!

The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Suppose your were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

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

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

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race

It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics