Mark Twain
(page 5)

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.