Wisdom Quote by Mark Twain — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!”

“If I knew then what I know now, by now I probably wouldn't know it.”

“It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”

“People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.”

“Conceit spoils the finest genius.”

“When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings.”

“The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.”