Mark Twain

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense…

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company…

I can live for two months on a good compliment…

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t…

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice…

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure…

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work…

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean…

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart…

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow…