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What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

Firsts Quotes

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Firsts Quotes

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won’t die.

Firsts Quotes

The world doesn’t owe you anything. It was here first.

Firsts Quotes

You can’t reason someone out of something that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place.

Firsts Quotes

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company – for he did all the talking.

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print.

Book Quotes

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Book Quotes

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Book Quotes

A man’s first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t anger me.

Book Quotes

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race – never quite sane in the night.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

Complaining Quotes

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Habit Quotes

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Real Quotes

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

History Quotes

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

Stories Quotes

They did not know it was impossible so they did it.

Law of attraction Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Courage Quotes

Life is short, break the rules.

Life is short Quotes

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

The southerner talks music.

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

The spirit of wrath – not the words – is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice – and always has been.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death!

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn’t know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.