Mark Twain

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"It is often the case that the cock crows loudest when least certain about anything."

"Be good and you will be lonesome."

"The most important are the first, last, and middle book you read."

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."

"Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and bleed."

"The less a man knows about his past, the more invisible his future."

"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to zip up your trousers, and then you forget to unzip your trousers."

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."

"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."

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

"The purity of a revolution dies when its leaders become its traitors."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

"I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time."

"Noise proves nothing, often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"The more I know about people, the more I like my dog."

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

"Let us lower our voices and sweeten our ideas."

"Cauliflower is a cabbage with a college education."

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

"I have never sought to control the past, only to understand it and learn from it."

"The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life."

"I have never been able to define the word 'honor' in a way that made sense to me."

"Good enough is the enemy of great."

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."