Mark Twain

Everybody’s private motto: It’s better to be popular than right.

Mark Twain

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Mark Twain

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.

Mark Twain

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Mark Twain

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

Mark Twain

Grief can take care if itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

Mark Twain

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it!

Mark Twain