Quotes from Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

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

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.