Mark Twain quotes - page 28

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species. (Mark Twain)
To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. View quote
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Now, what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state. View quote
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Ill risk forty dollars that he can outjump an frog in Calaveras county. View quote
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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish. View quote
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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." View quote
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. View quote
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. View quote
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. View quote
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The Public is merely a multiplied "me." View quote
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He had had much experience of physicians, and said, the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. (Mark Twain)
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. View quote
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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible. View quote
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. View quote
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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. View quote
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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. View quote
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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. View quote
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The minority is always in the right. The majority is always in the wrong. View quote
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Whoever is happy will make others happy too. View quote
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When a child turns 12, he should be kept in a barrel and fed through the bunghole, until he reaches 16 ... at which time you plug the bunghole. View quote
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Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society. (Mark Twain)
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. View quote
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Only the scum of the population do it. View quote
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Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always. View quote
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There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked. 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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