Now and then we had a hope that...... Quote by "Mark Twain"

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
— Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi

Tags: life, aspirations

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
— Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
— Mark Twain

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
— Mark Twain

Tags: pessimist, too-much, he, who, man

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
— Mark Twain

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
— Mark Twain