Mark Twain Quotes

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.

what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English — it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them — then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

Write what you know.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.