Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
MARK TWAINBooks are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
MARK TWAINEducation: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAINIt is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
MARK TWAINIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
MARK TWAINIn a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
MARK TWAINMy books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAINA successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
MARK TWAINThe more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
MARK TWAINA half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
MARK TWAINPoliticians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
MARK TWAINI didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
MARK TWAINThe best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
MARK TWAINNever argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
MARK TWAINThere was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
MARK TWAINNever tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAINCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
MARK TWAIN