A Bit of Wisdom from Mark Twain

Hannibal, Missouri…Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910. Writer of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County that put Calaveras County & also Mark Twain on the map.

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

“All good things arrive unto them that wait and don’t die in the meantime.”

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

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“To eat is human…to digest‚ divine.”