My Favorite Mark Twain-isms!

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but she will also never sit down on a cold one anymore either.

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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It is from experiences such as mine that we get our education of life. We string them into jewels or into tinware, as we may choose.

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