Twain, Mark
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
- Twain, Mark
There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else
- Twain, Mark
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
- Twain, Mark
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
- Twain, Mark
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Twain, Mark
Man is the only man that blushes. Or needs to.
- Twain, Mark
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
- Twain, Mark
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Twain, Mark
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Twain, Mark
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Twain, Mark
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Twain, Mark
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Twain, Mark
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Twain, Mark
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
- Twain, Mark
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- Twain, Mark
When in doubt tell the truth.
- Twain, Mark
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
- Twain, Mark
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
- Twain, Mark
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
- Twain, Mark
Love 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.
- Twain, Mark
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.
- Twain, Mark
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
- Twain, Mark
To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
- Twain, Mark
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
- Twain, Mark
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
- Twain, Mark
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
- Twain, Mark
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untax
- Twain, Mark
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
- Twain, Mark
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
- Twain, Mark
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
- Twain, Mark
There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.
- Twain, Mark
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
- Twain, Mark
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
- Twain, Mark
