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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 12

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

Adversity, Easy, Endure

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Courage, Fear, Cancer

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Adventure, Wish, Happenings

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

Success, People, Secret

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Funny, Life, Inspiration

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.684, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Clean Desk, Funny Business, Office Desk

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Revolution, Sides, Conditions

Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.542, University of Alabama Press

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

Mom, Baby, Children

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 4, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

Law, Persons, Senators

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.363, Courier Corporation

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

Firsts, Reason

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

Needs, Too Late, Late

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Employment, Honest, Hated

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Funny, Life, Death

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 9, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Dark, Doors, Sobriety

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Education, Food, Inspiration

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Individuality, Principles, Protection

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.375, Courier Corporation

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

Danger, Dangerous, Generalization

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

Boys, Used, Hotel

Mark Twain (1984). “The Innocents Abroad ; Roughing it”, p.491, Library of America

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Struggle, Training, Association

Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Laughing, Matter, Jokes

It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

Easy, Hard

In love, you pay as you leave.

Love You, Pay

Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

Girl, Relief, Now And Then

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Wise, Wisdom, Distance

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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