mark twain quotes

I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore


Let's have some new cliches. ~Samuel Goldwyn


In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert


Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. ~Eileen Mayhew


The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato


Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. ~Gail Godwin


What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties! ~Henry David Thoreau


If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson


There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open. ~Don Rittner


Safety never takes a holiday. ~Author Unknown


Don't cast a shadow on anyone unless you're providing shade. ~Terri Guillemets


Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland


I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition.... Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass


If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today. ~Stephen Girard


The big dispute between the government and Microsoft concerns the Internet "browser," which is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. As you can imagine, the potential market for this service is huge, so Microsoft would like you to use its browser, and not somebody else's. ~Dave Barry, 1998


A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job. ~Ella Harris


Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden. ~Chinese Proverb


A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange. ~Author Unknown


I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. "Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2." ~Ellen DeGeneres


We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ~Honore de Balzac