The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. – Mark Twain
Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. – Mark Twain
All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. – Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. – Mark Twain
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. – Mark Twain
A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. – Mark Twain
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. – Mark Twain
In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. – Mark Twain
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! – Mark Twain
