Mark Twain - great quotes
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 12:42 pm
A classic: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Put all your eggs in the one basket and--WATCH THAT BASKET.
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me--I always feel that they have not said enough.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child?s loss of a doll and a king?s loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man?s, I mean.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
There 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.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses wine. Everybody drinks water.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Put all your eggs in the one basket and--WATCH THAT BASKET.
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me--I always feel that they have not said enough.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child?s loss of a doll and a king?s loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man?s, I mean.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
There 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.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses wine. Everybody drinks water.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
