More from Mark Twain
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark TwainMark Twain When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark TwainMark Twain Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Mark TwainMark Twain Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark TwainMark Twain Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainMark Twain I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark TwainMark Twain When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
Mark TwainMark Twain I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Mark TwainMark Twain Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
Mark TwainMark Twain Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
Mark TwainMark Twain I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Mark TwainMark Twain It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark TwainMark Twain Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Mark TwainMark Twain I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
Mark TwainMark Twain I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
Mark TwainMark Twain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark TwainMark Twain
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on accident
I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
Amy WinehouseAmy Winehouse You don’t just accidentally show up in the World Series.
Derek JeterDerek Jeter In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?
Debbie FordDebbie Ford To the eye of failure success is an accident.
Ambrose BierceAmbrose Bierce My existence was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed met for a specific work.
Francis ChanFrancis Chan No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.
Gary ZukavGary Zukav It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda MeirGolda Meir
