Mark Twain Remember Quotations

It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.

How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.