Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
MARK TWAINDon’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
MARK TWAINAll you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
MARK TWAINIn the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
MARK TWAINIf animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
MARK TWAINI must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
MARK TWAINA successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
MARK TWAINReality can be beaten with enough imagination.
MARK TWAINWhen angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
MARK TWAINKeep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
MARK TWAINLoyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAINWhenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
MARK TWAINSanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAINIf Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
MARK TWAINA half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
MARK TWAINThe man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAINI have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
MARK TWAIN