"I have achieved my seventy years in..." - Quote by Mark Twain
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
More by Mark Twain
“One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.”
“It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.”
“We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.”
More on Life
“My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.”
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.”
More on Individuality
“Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.”
“I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.”
“The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.”