Quotes by American/USA authors (page 50)

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times"

Mark Twain, Author

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards"

Mark Twain, Author

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing"

Mark Twain, Author

"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold"

Mark Twain, Author

"Buy land, they're not making it anymore"

Mark Twain, Author

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"

Mark Twain, Author

"Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul"

Mark Twain, Author

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint"

Mark Twain, Author

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured"

Mark Twain, Author

"All right, then, I'll go to hell"

Mark Twain, Author

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way"

Mark Twain, Author

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval"

Mark Twain, Author

"We have the best government that money can buy"

Mark Twain, Author

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul"

Mark Twain, Author

"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one"

Mark Twain, Author

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

Mark Twain, Author

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Don't fear change - embrace it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Set high standards and few limitations for yourself"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"The discontented man finds no easy chair"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Those that won't be counseled can't be helped"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician