Mark Twain

"Some learned to have patience with themselves."

"Do not underestimate the value of doing nothing."

"Each person is born to one possession which outweighs all his others—his last breath."

"I should like to kill my enemies with kindness."

"Pity is for the living; envy is for the dead."

"Training is everything."

"I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices."

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."

"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear foolish than to open it and remove all doubt."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"A person is a fool who tries to sum up their whole nature in a single sentence."

"We are all fools, some of us just hide it better than others."

"The war against boredom is the only war worth waging."

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

"I would sooner live and love where I hate than be beloved where I love not."

"Cautiousness is the parent of safety."

"It is better to believe in things that do not exist than to doubt things that do."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life; indeed, this is happiness."

"The principal difference between dogs and cats is that dogs come when they're called."

"Noise proves nothing and often distracts from the real issues at hand."

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

"To eat is human, to digest divine."

"The future is just the past entered through another gate."

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress."

"Let us be thankful for the fools. Without them the wise could not shine."

"I believe we are all fools, just in different ways and to varying degrees."

"Disapproval is a very reasonable ground for dislike; I dislike things too."

"Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment."