Mark Twain.
Not only talented with his writing, Mark Twain had brilliant advice... with wit and humor to boot! Let's sit back and enjoy Mr. Twain's great comedic verbage.
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.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
And last but certainly NOT least . . .
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.