Quotes to inspire and reflect

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place .

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation .

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Golf is a good walk spoiled .

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know .

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around .

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people .

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful '

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

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

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.