Quotes to inspire and reflect

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

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

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over .

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher .

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes .

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse .

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation .

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any .

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it .

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.