Mark Twain ( 10 of 310 )
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred read more
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the read more
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Be good and you will be lonesome
Be good and you will be lonesome
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to read more
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths read more
All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
