Mark Twain Birthday Quotations

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.