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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 16

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Love, Life, Relationship

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9066, Delphi Classics

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

Honest, Politician, Oxymoron

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Funny, Success, Carpe Diem

Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

Inspirational, Work, Preaching

Mark Twain (2005). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.216, Prestwick House Inc

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

Sick, Firsts, So Sick

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.43, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Frogs, Ends, Process

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Inspirational, Kings, Children

Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.52, Univ of California Press

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Society, Skins, Demand

Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.563, University of Alabama Press

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Regret, Hero, Simple

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

Flower, Writing, Simple

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.65, Chartwell

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Travel, Hate, Memorable

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

Peace, War, Passion

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

Heart, Thinking, Two

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

Lying, Deceit, Chance

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.74, eKitap Projesi

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Life, Reality, Imagination

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Ignorance, Too Much, Trouble

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

Fighting, Men, Sight

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7028, Delphi Classics

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Life, Inspiring, Truth

Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Sarcastic, Inspiration, Sea

Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Inspirational, Life, Atheist

"Letters from the Earth" (1940)

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

Teaching, Noble, Stills

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.467, Courier Corporation

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

Ink And Paper, People, Arguing

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Wisdom, Country, Freedom

Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

Children and fools always speak the truth

Children, Fool, Speak

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.27, Book Tree

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

Prejudice

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