Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

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.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me --I always feel that they have not said enough.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.More Mark Twain [01/01/2000 12:01:00]