Mark Twain ( 10 of 310 )
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.
We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.
What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it read more
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Be good and you will be lonely.
Be good and you will be lonely.
