Sunday, July 20, 2008

Some maxims of Mark


"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. "

"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. "

"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. "

"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. "

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. "

"Be good and you will be lonesome."

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. "

“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.”

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

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”

"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."


"Travel is lethal to prejudice."




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