"When nothing is sure, everything is possible." Margaret Drabble October 15, 2008
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Mark Twain

  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
  • You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
  • Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
  • Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't.
  • Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
  • Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
  • The human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
  • Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
  • Under our free institutions anybody can poison himself that wants to and will pay the price.
  • If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
  • The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
  • . . . rumor will die itself if you will only give it three days. Start any rumor, and if the public can go with its curiosity unsatisfied for three days something else will spring up which will make the public forget all about the first one.
  • We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double the fire department to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell of blood, and then innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite that sweeps the land as a consequence.
  • I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
  • Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
  • The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
  • Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
  • Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
  • When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
  • When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
  • It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
 
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