"It's an epitome of life. The first..." - Quote by Mark Twain
It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
More by Mark Twain
“It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.”
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
“My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.”
More on Life
“If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.”
“To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.”
“Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.”
More on Age
“A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.”
“I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.”
“In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.”