Samuel Langhorne Clemens
United States
30 Nov 1835 // 21 Apr 1910
Writer / Author
30 Nov 1835 // 21 Apr 1910
Writer / Author
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping
I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with
Golf is a good walk spoiled
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays