Mark Twain Quotes
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life – time, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain
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Brother Quotes
My little brother, will you ever grow up….I hope not!
-Catherine Pulsifer
Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
-Proverb
A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.
-Proverb
To the outside world we all grow old.
But not to brothers and sisters.
We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts.
We share private family jokes.
We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.
We live outside the touch of time.
-Clara Ortega
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.
-Anna Quindlan
There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.
- Astrid Alauda
Happiness Quotes
If you want to be happy, be.
-Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
-Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
-Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
-Mark Twain
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
-Edith Wharton
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
-Colette
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
-James Openheim
Mother Quotes
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
-Proverb
Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.
-Mildred B. Vermont
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
-Tenneva Jordan
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
-Peter De Vries
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
-Rajneesh
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
-Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
-Oprah Winfrey
Laughter Quotes
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-E.E. Cummings
Laughter is an instant vacation.
-Milton Berle
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
-Woody Allen
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.
-Author Unknown
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-Victor Borge
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
-Yiddish Proverb
A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.
-Raymond Hitchcock
Sibling Quotes
Our brothers and sisters are there with us from the dawn of our personal stories to the inevitable dusk.
-Susan Scarf Merrell
Never make a companion equal to a brother.
-Hesiod
A sibling may be the keeper of one’s identity, the only person with the keys to one’s unfettered, more fundamental self.
-Marian Sandmaier
The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
-Clara Ortega
Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way.
-Pamela Dugdale
You can kid the world. But not your sister.
-Charlotte Gray
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
-Pam Brown
It was nice growing up with someone like you – someone to lean on, someone to count on… someone to tell on!
-Author Unknown
Funny Love Quotes
Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener!
-Unknown
You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-Henny Youngman
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
- Unknown
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-Mae West
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
-Winston Churchill
Love is being stupid together.
-Paul Valery
Funny Birthday Quotes
We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
- Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
-John Glenn
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
- Unknown
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
-Herbert Asquith
May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
-Unknown
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
-Larry Lorenzoni
Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
-Unknown
Quotes about Mondays
“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.”
- H. Allen Smith
“Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code.”
- Dan Salomon
“I always give 100% at work:13% Monday
22% Tuesday
26% Wednesday
35% Thursday
4% Friday”
- Unknown
“Monday is the key day of the week.”
-Gaelic Proverb
