It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ----Mark Twain
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. ----Mark twin
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. ----Mark Twin
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 anymore. ---Mark Twin
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me;
I always feel that they have not said enough. ---Mark Twin
Kindness is the language, which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ---Mark Twin
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. ----Mark Twain
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wished he was certain of. ---Mark Twin
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ----Mark Twain
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.---Mark Twain
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.---Mark Twain.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination, which gives immortality to conversation.--Mark Twain
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.---Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books is at no advantage over the man that can't read them.---Mark Twain.