Quote: The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. --Mark Twain's Notebook
Quote: Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. --Mark Twain's Notebook
Quote: Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
Quote: Patriot: The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. --More Maxims of Mark
Quote: People seem to think they are citizens of the Republican Party and that that is patriotism and sufficiently good patriotism. I prefer to be a citizen of the United States. --Mark Twain's Notebook
Quote: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Quote: We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
Quote: Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and--watch that basket!" --Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Quote: It is not likely that any complete life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person that lived it. --More Maxims of Mark
Quote: Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
Quote: Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Quote: Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well. --More Maxims of Mark
Quote: When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Quote: You can straighten a worm, but the crook is in him and only waiting. --More Maxims of Mark
Quote: I write to please myself. No editor is so hard to satisfy as one's own standard. --What I am Thankful For
Quote: "Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. --Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
I will add more when I find more that interest me.
 Ebony_Tear · Tue Nov 02, 2004 @ 01:57am · 1 Comments |
