Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.Comedy keeps the heart sweet...
Classic--a
book which people praise and don't read.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint!
Prosperity
is the best protector of principle.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
Go to heaven for the climate.
Hell for the company.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The best way to cheer yourself
up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Cauliflower
is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
Denial
ain't just a river in Egypt.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs
to.
"That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her."
Air Balloon: thing to take meteoric observations
and commit suicide with.
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.
The game of billiards has destroyed my naturally
sweet disposition.
Of Teddy Roosevelt...He would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for
a whole one.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
A healthy
and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.
"When the end of the world comes, I want to
be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd
all have frozen to death.
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine
country.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
To believe yourself brave is to be
brave; it is the one only essential thing.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we
are not the person involved.
It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt
The report
of my death was an exaggeration.
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Where and how did
we get the idea that the Germans are a stolid, phlegmatic race? In truth...They are warm-hearted, emotional, impulsive, enthusiastic,
their tears come at the mildest touch, and it is not hard to move them to laughter.
I can live for two months on a good
compliment.