Mark Twain ( 10 of 310 )
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the read more
God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty read more
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures read more
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows read more
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
