| Quotes |
Topic |
| Adversity | By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean. |
| Advice | When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. |
| Advice | Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great. |
| Advice | If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. |
| Advice | The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. |
| Age | Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. |
| Age | Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. |
| Age | Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain. |
| Age | The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain. |
| Ambition | Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. |
| Anger | When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. |
| Authority | Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. |
| Babies | Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved. |
| Birth | Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. |
| Books | My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. |
| Books | The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. |
| Books | My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water. |
| Books and Reading | A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. |
| Boys | There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. |
| Cats | A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him! |
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