Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Venturi

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

Ken Venturi

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Mark Twain

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Mark Twain

To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Mark Twain

When in doubt tell the truth.

Mark Twain

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

Mark Twain

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Mark Twain

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Mark Twain

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Mark Twain

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Mark Twain

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Mark Twain

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Mark Twain

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

Mark Twain

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Mark Twain

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Mary Renault

death was the price of life.

Mary Renault

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Mary Roach

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

Mary Baker Eddy

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Mary Baker Eddy

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love in all he doeth, Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume: The wicked work their woe by looking upon love, and hating it: The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.