"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." — Mark Twain "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." — Mark Twain "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." — Mark Twain "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." — Mark Twain "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." — Mark Twain "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." — Mark Twain "Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." — Mark Twain | "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." — Mark Twain "Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it." — Mark Twain "Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read." — Mark Twain "Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." — Mark Twain | "The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." — Mark Twain "Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company." — Mark Twain "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." — Mark Twain "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." — Mark Twain "In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." — Mark Twain "But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" — Mark Twain |