Quotes by Twain, Mark

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. >>

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It i >>

There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, >>

Quotations about Bereavement

We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy wer >>

The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing >>

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. >>

A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential -- there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

Twain, Mark