It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
MARK TWAINIt is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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 TWAINLet us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAINReality can be beaten with enough imagination.
MARK TWAINThere’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
MARK TWAINNever argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
MARK TWAINNever allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
MARK TWAINI 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 TWAINIt’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
MARK TWAINNever argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
MARK TWAINAlways acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
MARK TWAINIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
MARK TWAINApril 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
MARK TWAINAny emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
MARK TWAINSanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAINClassic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
MARK TWAIN