Will > Will's Quotes

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
― Mark Twain

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
― Mark Twain

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
― Mark Twain

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

“Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.”
― John Adams