In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark TwainTags: politics
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Mark TwainTags: travel
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.
Mark TwainTags: greatness
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark TwainTags: humor procrastination
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
Mark TwainI came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.
Mark TwainA cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
Mark TwainTags: cat-crimes
Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.
Mark TwainIn the country neighborhood thereabouts, along the dusty roads, one found at intervals the prettiest little cottage homes, snug and cozy, and so cobwebbed with vines snowed thick with roses that the doors and windows were wholly hidden from sight-sign that these were deserted homes, forsaken years ago by defeated and disappointed families who could neither sell them nor give them away.
Mark TwainBe good and you will be lonesome.
Mark TwainTags: goodness loneliness
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