Quotes from Mark Twain

memories which some day will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that incumbers them shall have faded out of our minds never again to return.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town, because he was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad—and because all their children admired him so, and delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him.

Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees, the outlines of the horizon, the forms of clouds, all give a pleasure as exquisite as the sweetest music to the ear famishing for it. The

Cada vez que te encuentres del lado de la mayoría, es momento de hacer una pausa y reflexionar -Mark Twain-

There was not a man in the party but believed that with a little practice he could stand in a row, especially if there were others along;

The world is beautiful and dangerous, and joyful and said, and ungrateful and giving, and full of so, so many things. The world is new and it is old. It is big and it is small. The world is fierce and it is kind, and we, every one us, are in it.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story

Love is madness if thwarted it develops fast

And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often forget—or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.

For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution- these can lift at a colossal humbug- push it a little - weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.

Ours is the "land of the free" — nobody denies that — nobody challenges it. [Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.]

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? — it is the same the angels breathe.

When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination are out of focus.

Moralizing, I observed, then, that all that glitters is not gold.

The only way to win a toxic person, is not to play

The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth. He has a general slinking expression all over. The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry.

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the what is next of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

No one in the world speaks blemishless grammar; no one has ever written it--NO one, either in the world or out of it (taking the Scriptures for evidence on the latter point); therefore it would not be fair to exact grammatical perfection from the peoples of the Valley; but they and all other peoples may justly be required to refrain from KNOWINGLY and PURPOSELY debauching their grammar.

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so

I said it was a brutal thing. No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.

You do beat all for natural stupidness.

Immaculate Conception, that if the Virgin would permit him to