Mark Twain.

I've been googling Mark Twain's quotes these days 'cos they're bloody brilliant. here's a compilation of a few of my favourites :D

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.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Keep 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.

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Okay i can go on and on. go google them yourself :P