Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910):

He is a great US humorist, novelist and short story author, wrote novels "Tom Sawyer" 1876, "Huckleberry Finn" 1884, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" 1889..



I like his quotes, and here are some of my favorites..

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

"Work like you don't need the money.Dance like no one is watching.And love like you've never been hurt."

"When in doubt tell the truth."

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it- and stop there; let's we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."

"When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years."

"I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't."

"History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."

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

"Don't let school interfere with your education."

"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language."

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

"It is easier to stay out than get out."

"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."

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."

"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."

"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."

"Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind, blow softly here;
Green sod above, lie light, lie light
Good night, dear heart, good-night, good-night."