Quotes About Reflection

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly.

I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning… the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.

I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell."

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race — never quite sane in the night.

"Pilgrim's Progress," about a man that left his family it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.