Mark Twain ( 10 of 310 )
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home read more
When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people read more
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the read more
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and read more
Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the read more
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
