“ Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain
“ There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked. Mark Twain
“ If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. Mark Twain
“ It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Mark Twain
“ When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. Mark Twain
“ The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. Mark Twain
“ The difference between the word and the word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. Mark Twain
“ No you can’t. I can. You can’t. Can! Can’t! An uncomfortable pause. Then Tom said: What’s your name? ’Tisn’t any of your business, maybe. Well I ’low I’ll MAKE it my business. Well why don’t you? If y… Mark Twain
“ I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience. Mark Twain
“ It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Mark Twain
“ There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. Mark Twain
“ Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
“ Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give yo… Mark Twain