Quotes by Mark Twain

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

- Mark Twain

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.

- Mark Twain

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

- Mark Twain

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

- Mark Twain

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mark Twain

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

- Mark Twain

Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.

- Mark Twain

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

- Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

- Mark Twain

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

- Mark Twain

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely custom.

- Mark Twain

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

- Mark Twain

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

- Mark Twain

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

- Mark Twain

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

- Mark Twain

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

- Mark Twain

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

- Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

- Mark Twain

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

- Mark Twain

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

- Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

- Mark Twain

10 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.

- Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

- Oscar Wilde

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

- Oscar Wilde

Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

- Oscar Wilde

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

- Oscar Wilde

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

- Oscar Wilde

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

- Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves.

- Oscar Wilde

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

- Oscar Wilde

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

- Oscar Wilde

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

- Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.

- Oscar Wilde

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

- Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

- Oscar Wilde

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

- Oscar Wilde

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

- Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

- Oscar Wilde

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.

- Oscar Wilde

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

- Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

- Oscar Wilde

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.

- Oscar Wilde

When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

- Oscar Wilde

Henry Ford Quotes

The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

- Henry Ford

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

- Henry Ford

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

- Henry Ford

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

- Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

- Henry Ford

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

- Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

- Henry Ford

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

One who fears failure limits his activities.

- Henry Ford

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

- Henry Ford