Qwotebook - Qwotes said by Mark Twain (MarkTwain)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ... Read more

Her talk is my circus, my menagerie, my fireworks, my spiritual refreshment.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ... Read more

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. ... Read more

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. ~~~ Mark Twain ... Read more

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ... Read more

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ... Read more

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ... Read more

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ~~~ Mark Twain ... Read more

Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. ... Read more

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ... Read more

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. ... Read more