Mark Twain

"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

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

"There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; alwa…"

"No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time."

"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of ora…"