More quotes by Mark Twain

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
"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."
"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."