"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.












Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
More Mark Twain quotes
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
"It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved...