Inspirational quotes by Mark Twain.
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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