מארק טוועין:
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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 prudence never to practice either of them.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.