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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 13

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Loyalty, Country, Peace

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

Joy, Secret, Sorrow

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Class, Criminals, Literature

Following the Equator ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

There is no humor in heaven.

Heaven

Following the Equator ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Recovery, Animal, Intelligent

Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Humanity, Divine, Humans

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Compliment

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.203, Xist Publishing

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Friendship, Happiness, Marriage

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.484, eKitap Projesi

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

Matter, Way

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Sports, Dog, Pain

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

Dog, Home, Humor

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Change, Progress, Favors

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Inspiration, Prosperity, Breeders

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mind

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Happy Birthday, Time, Growing Up

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.248, Courier Corporation

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Time, Steps, Window

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Healing, Intellectual, Spoons

Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.219, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

Money, Hero, Men

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.525, Courier Corporation

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

Inspirational, Graduation, Education

Attributed in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1946

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

Matter, May, Spirit

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Motivational, Meaningful, Play

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.523, Courier Corporation

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

Heaven, Want, Bermuda

It were not best that we should all think alike.

Thinking, Opinion, Should

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Happiness, Food, Desire

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.701, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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