TWAIN, MARK : �There isn�t a single square inch of the world that hasn�t been stolen.� In other words, there is no place in the world that has not been stolen or taken from someone else. Countries talk about hereditary borders, but such talk is nonsense There�s always been someone else there before.
TWAIN, MARK : A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. governor, ambassador, 1900-1965Perception: Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. (Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. novelist, 1867-1957Royalty: The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.
TWAIN, MARK : Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
TWAIN, MARK : It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
TWAIN, MARK : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
TWAIN, MARK : 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 in seven years.
TWAIN, MARK : Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
TWAIN, MARK : Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
TWAIN, MARK : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
TWAIN, MARK : I have studied [the dictionary] often, but I never could discover the plot.
TWAIN, MARK : There isn't a single square inch of the world that hasn't been stolen. In other words, there is no place in the world that has not been stolen or taken from someone else. Countries talk about hereditary borders, but such talk is nonsense There's always been someone else there before.
TWAIN, MARK : Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
TWAIN, MARK : History doesn't always repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
TWAIN, MARK : The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you found out why.
TWAIN, MARK : The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.
TWAIN, MARK : It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
TWAIN, MARK : Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
TWAIN, MARK : If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
TWAIN, MARK : Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
TWAIN, MARK : Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
TWAIN, MARK : If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
TWAIN, MARK : Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the grade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
TWAIN, MARK : Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
TWAIN, MARK : Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
TWAIN, MARK : Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
TWAIN, MARK : Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
TWAIN, MARK : There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
TWAIN, MARK : Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
TWAIN, MARK : Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
TWAIN, MARK : You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
TWAIN, MARK : Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
TWAIN, MARK : Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
TWAIN, MARK : Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
TWAIN, MARK : In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
TWAIN, MARK : Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
TWAIN, MARK : 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 he had learned in seven years.
TWAIN, MARK : I can live for two months on a good compliment.
TWAIN, MARK : We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
TWAIN, MARK : Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
TWAIN, MARK : The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
TWAIN, MARK : Golf is a good walk spoiled.