Month: November 2025

“There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.”

Mark Twain
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“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.”

Mark Twain
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“Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.”

Mark Twain
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“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.”

Mark Twain
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“Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”

Mark Twain
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“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”

Mark Twain
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“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”

Mark Twain
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“Imagination labors best in distant fields.”

Shakespeare
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“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

Shakespeare
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“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

Shakespeare
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