Mark Twain

Mark Twain

"That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw."
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"That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw."
Mark Twain
"Adam was the only man who when he said a good thing knew that nobody had said it before him."
Mark Twain
"There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice."
Mark Twain
"The pause - that impressive silence that eloquent silence that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words howsoever felicitous could accomplish it."
Mark Twain
"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may."
Mark Twain
"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
Mark Twain
"When we remember that we are all mad the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Mark Twain
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
Mark Twain
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great."
Mark Twain
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand."
Mark Twain
"Heaven goes by favor if it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in."
Mark Twain
"We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility."
Mark Twain
"I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead Spenser is dead so is Milton so is Shakespeare and I'm not feeling so well myself."
Mark Twain
"Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please."
Mark Twain
"Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out."
Mark Twain
"In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."
Mark Twain
"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
Mark Twain
"In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par."
Mark Twain
"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."
Mark Twain
"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man."
Mark Twain
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