"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man....












I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened
More Mark Twain quotes
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
"Never let your education interfere with your learning.
"Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't ...
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
"A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
"I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
"There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, ...
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.