Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
Mark TwainYou can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
Mark TwainMy heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.
Mark TwainSome people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
Mark TwainIntellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.
Mark TwainIt is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.
Mark Twain