I love quotes. You all know that. I decided I wanted to post a message while sitting here at work, and I needed a quote to put at the start of my posting. So I doodled in google and found a page of Mark Twain quotes among others, and decided that I wanted most of them. So rather than have just one quote, I decided to put up a lot so that when I get home, I can add them to my collection. Sure, I could have just e-mailed them to myself, but what&#039s the fun in that? Now everyone gets to enjoy. So, enjoy!

&#034There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.&#034

&#034Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.&#034

&#034I didn&#039t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.&#034

&#034Sacred cows make the best hamburger.&#034

&#034Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one&#039s head.&#034

&#034Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life.&#034

&#034I didn&#039t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.&#034

&#034The man who doesn&#039t read good books has no advantage over the man who can&#039t read them.&#034

&#034Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.&#034

&#034Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.&#034

&#034Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.&#034

&#034First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.&#034

&#034I&#039ve lived a long life and seen a lot of hard times…most of which never happened.&#034

&#034Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.&#034

&#034Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.&#034

&#034Suppose you were an idiot… And suppose you were a member of Congress… But I repeat myself.&#034

&#034Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.&#034

&#034Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.&#034

&#034Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you&#039ve never been hurt and live like it&#039s heaven on Earth.&#034

&#034If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.&#034

&#034If you tell the truth you don&#039t have to remember anything.&#034

&#034Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah… didn&#039t miss the boat.&#034

&#034Why shouldn&#039t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.&#034

&#034When angry count four; when very angry, swear.&#034

&#034I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.&#034

&#034Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.&#034

Posted: June 11, 2004 at uh, something in the morning.