KaaniNilam: Rammesh's Quotes of Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the
mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of
tradition.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain

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

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children

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

In religion and culture, India is the only millionaire! There is only one India! The land of dreams and romance. The one land all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of all rest of the globe combined.

I am not an American. I am the American.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

To me Mona Lisa was merely a serene and subdued face, and there an end. There might be more in it, but I could not find it. The complexion was bad; in fact, it was not even human; there are no people that color.

It is best to read the weather forecast before we pray for rain.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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