If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Mark Twain
Profession: Author Nationality: American
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.
The expeditions were often out of meat, and scant of clothes, but they always had the furniture and other requisites for the mass; they were always prepared, as one of the quaint chroniclers of the time phrased it, to 'explain hell to the savages.
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own Heaven to be happy. Perfectly correct, says he. Did you imagine the same heaven would suit all sorts of men?
Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on.
It was with much satisfaction that I recognized the wisdom of having told this candid gentleman, in the beginning, that my name was Smith.
Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull.
So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.
Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient.
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.