One my favorite writers, Samuel Longhorne Clemens, more famously known as Mark Twain, has a lot to say and his quotes easily relate to us today as they did when he wrote them.
Of course we start off with my most favorite quote:
"Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
"Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most."
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."
And wrap it up with one that is perhaps more thoughtful and less off the cuff:
"The government is merely a servant - merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."
Hopefully some of those will make you both chuckle and think!
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