Mark Twain

• A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
• A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
• Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
• Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
• Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
• Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
• If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.
• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
• Keep 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.
• Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
• Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
• Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
• The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremist pleasure in life.
• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
• The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
• There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
• To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
• When in doubt, tell the truth.
• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
• Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.