"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
— Mark Twain

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
— Mark Twain

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
— Mark Twain

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
— Mark Twain

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."
— Mark Twain

"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."
— Mark Twain

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
— Mark Twain

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. "
— Mark Twain

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
— Mark Twain

"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."
— Mark Twain

"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries."
— Mark Twain

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
— Mark Twain

"If we were supposed to talk more than listen we would have been given two mouths and one ear."
— Mark Twain

"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."
— Mark Twain (The Diaries of Adam and Eve)

"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. --
Eleanor Roosevelt

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.--
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. --Abraham Lincoln

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard. --Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your face in the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. --Helen Keller

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken "
— Various, see quotes

""My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style" "
— Maya Angelou

" "If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.""
— Sojourner Truth

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
— William Shakespeare

"When he shall die, take him and cut him out into little stars and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."
— William Shakespeare

"thus with a kiss I die"
— William Shakespeare

"Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken."
— William Shakespeare