Bethany > Bethany's Quotes

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

“I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me”
― Donald Miller

“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

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

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

“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.”
― Mark Twain

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.”
― Mark Twain

“It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.”
― Mark Twain