“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” — Mark Twain
“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” — Mark Twain
“I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them” — Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
“For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night and slaverly which would last till Christ comes again--which I hope he will n.” — Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.” — Mark Twain
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” — Mark Twain
“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.” — Mark Twain
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.” — Mark Twain
“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.” — Mark Twain
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work” — Mark Twain