I do not fear death

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

~ Mark Twain

A man

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

~ Mark Twain

My mother

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

- Mark Twain

Of all the animals

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

~Mark Twain

Work

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

~Mark Twain

Courage

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

~Mark Twain

Never put off

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

~Mark Twain

Twenty years from now

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

~Mark Twain

By trying

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity - another man's I mean.

~Mark Twain

Courage is

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

~Mark Twain

It usually

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu
speech.

~Mark Twain

There is

There is nothing that cannot happen today.

~Mark Twain

Be careful

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

~Mark Twain

When I was younger

When I was younger, I could remember anything whether it had happened or not.

~Mark Twain

I didn't attend

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

~Mark Twain

It ain't what you don't know

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

~Mark Twain