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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 17

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Optimistic, Optimism, Dreamer

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Money, Virtue, Respectable

Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.589

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Funny, Hilarious, Talking

"Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist".

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

Views, Politics, Next

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

Bags, Damn, Humans

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

Circles, Lines, Holes

Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.152, 谷月社

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Time, Writing, Long

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

Inspirational, Funny, Humor

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

Weather, Waiting, England

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

Love, Appreciated, Pleasure

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Friendship, Inspirational Life, Real Friends

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.135, Courier Corporation

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

Hair, Mouths, Uneasy

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

Book, Taken, Inspiration

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4678, Delphi Classics

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Funny, Witty, Clever

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.922, GENERAL PRESS

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Death, Religious, Atheist

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

Land, Feet, America

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.648, eKitap Projesi

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Knowing

Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

Example, Frustrating, Good Examples

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Inspirational, Success, Good Life

1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Life, Thinking, Littles

Notebook, 1899

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

Attitude, Mind, Make Up Your Mind

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

Sanity, Reason, Preserves

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.764, Jazzybee Verlag

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

Way, Beggar

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

Religious, Believe, Passion

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Inspiration, Vapor, Reputation

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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