"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.












Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
More Mark Twain quotes
"If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.
"When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do...
"I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight o...
"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
"Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.
"The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in...
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the pr...
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
"If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with a person; and although it cert...