Mark Twain

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.