It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces. (from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar," 1894) - Mark Twain

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. - Mark Twain

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. - Mark Twain

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1959

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. - Mark Twain