“That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filt…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Now there you have a sample of man’s ‘reasoning powers,’ as he calls them. He observes certain facts. For instance, that in all his life he never sees the day that he can satisfy one woman; also, that no woman ever sees the day that she can’t overwork, and defeat, and put out of commission any ten m…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com