Mark Twain
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
When the human race has once acquired a supersitition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. rental cars chicago
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.