"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

Twain, Mark | Optimism | 3 bookmarks

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark | Gratitude | 6 bookmarks

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark | Ambition | 8 bookmarks

"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark | Age and Aging | 5 bookmarks

"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark | Friends and Friendship | 7 bookmarks

"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark | Fools and Foolishness | 8 bookmarks

"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

Twain, Mark | Fiction | 2 bookmarks

"It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark | Faith | 1 bookmarks

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark | Facts | 10 bookmarks

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

Twain, Mark | Honor | 4 bookmarks