We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there.

-- Mark Twain

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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

-- Mark Twain

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

-- Mark Twain

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

-- Mark Twain

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

-- Mark Twain

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