3 December 2020 Mark Twain There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.