Mark Twain

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."

"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well."

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."

"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."

"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

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

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought."

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."