Mark Twain1835–1910Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVotoFew things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 19.I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
As quoted in Quick and Fun Activities for Every Day of the Year (2001) by Tim Tuck and Karen Froloff, p. 1.Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 66, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
