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

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.”

“Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar”

“Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!”

“Humor is tragedy plus time.”

“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”

“Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.”

““For I have known them all already, known them all—”

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”

“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.”

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”