Mark Twain quotes - page 25

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. (Mark Twain)

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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We are all alike, on the inside.

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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

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India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers India is the only millionaire.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. (Mark Twain)

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.

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It does look as if Massachusetts were in a fair way to embarrass me with kindnesses this year. In the first place, a Massachusetts judge has just decided in open court that a Boston publisher may sell, not only his own property in a free and unfettered way, but also may as freely sell property which does not belong to him but to me; property which he has not bought and which I have not sold. Under this ruling I am now advertising that judge's homestead for sale, and, if I make as good a sum out of it as I expect, I shall go on and sell out the rest of his property. (Mark Twain)

You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. ... I have touched upon this matter in a small book which I wrote a generation ago and which I have not published as yet - Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. When Stormfield arrived in heaven he ... was told that ... a shoemaker ... was the most prodigious military genius the planet had ever produced.

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Adam, at Eve's grave: Wheresoever she was, THERE was Eden.

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.

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Mark Twain

Occupation: American Author
Born: November 30, 1835
Died: April 21, 1910
Quotes count: 1197
Wikipedia: Mark Twain

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