Mark Twain quotes - page 12

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." (Mark Twain)
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.. View quote
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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me. View quote
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For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. View quote
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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better. View quote
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I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing. View quote
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Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. View quote
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Ah, if he could only die temporarily! View quote
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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. View quote
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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. View quote
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If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. (Mark Twain)
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. View quote
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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by. View quote
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Humor is tragedy plus time. View quote
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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out. View quote
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right. View quote
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Human pride is not worthwhile there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it. View quote
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The average man don't like trouble and danger. View quote
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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather. View quote
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I don't want no better book than what your face is. View quote
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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Mark Twain)
All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out. View quote
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You can't throw too much style into a miracle. View quote
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In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus -- 'one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.' View quote
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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. View quote
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Mark Twain

Occupation: American Author
Born: November 30, 1835
Died: April 21, 1910
Quotes count: 1199
Wikipedia: Mark Twain

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