Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations....
Mark TwainApril 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..
Mark TwainWhen 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 TwainWhat work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.
Mark TwainDrag your thoughts away
from your troubles...
by the ears, by the heels,
or any other way you can manage it.
Tags: worry
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark TwainLearning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
Mark TwainEducation: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Mark TwainTags: education
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
Mark TwainTags: humor philosophy religion
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Mark TwainTags: life aspirations
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