Idea Book
Mark Twain

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother  Mark Twain

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.  Another man's, I mean.  Mark Twain

To be busy is man's only happiness  Mark Twain

Get a bicycle.  You will not regret it if you live.  Mark Twain

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul  Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value from joy you must have somebody to divide it with  Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them  Mark Twain

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language  Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value from joy you must have somebody to divide it with  Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled  Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes.  Or needs to.  Mark Twain

If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance  Mark Twain

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

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so  Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been  Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul  Mark Twain

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

It is easier to stay out than get out  Mark Twain

One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect  Mark Twain

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking  Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them  Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval  Mark Twain

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself  Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth  Mark Twain