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Gertrude Stein: Everybody gets so...

Gertrude Stein: Everybody gets so...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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Margot Asquith: He's very clever,...

Margot Asquith: He's very clever,...

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Source: Referring to F....

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Mark Twain: When one has...

Mark Twain: When one has...

When one has tasted it he knows what the angels eat.

Source: On watermelons; In The...

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G K Chesterton: Half a truth...

G K Chesterton: Half a truth...

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Source: All Things Considered, The Boy ...

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G K Chesterton: An adventure is...

G K Chesterton: An adventure is...

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly...

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Mark Twain: Honesty is the...

Mark Twain: Honesty is the...

Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Source:
-- Mark Twain,...

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Mark Twain: I think a...

Mark Twain: I think a...

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and...

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Mark Twain: Make money and...

Mark Twain: Make money and...

Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: It is curious...

Mark Twain: It is curious...

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so...

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Mark Twain: My parents were...

Mark Twain: My parents were...

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Mark Twain: Principles have no...

Mark Twain: Principles have no...

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Source:
-- Mark...

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Mark Twain: Public opinion is...

Mark Twain: Public opinion is...

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of...

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Mark Twain: Some men worship...

Mark Twain: Some men worship...

Some men worship rank, some men worship heroes, some men worship power, some men worship God, and over these ideals...

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Mark Twain: That's what an...

Mark Twain: That's what an...

That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed...

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Mark Twain: Only one thing...

Mark Twain: Only one thing...

Only one thing is impossible for God; to find any sense in any copyright law on the...

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Mark Twain: Surgeons and anatomists...

Mark Twain: Surgeons and anatomists...

Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names...

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Mark Twain: Switzerland is simply...

Mark Twain: Switzerland is simply...

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over...

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Mark Twain: The report of...

Mark Twain: The report of...

The report of my death is exaggerated.

Source: Cable from London to the Associated...

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Mark Twain: The face of...

Mark Twain: The face of...

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book -- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated...

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Mark Twain: The man who...

Mark Twain: The man who...

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too...

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