Quotes from Mark Twain

Life is short, break the rules.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.