Mark Twain

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”

“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of mag...”

“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”

“Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."”

“Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.”

“Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

“Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.”

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.”

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

“Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear.”

“Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.”

“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to...”

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned...”