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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 20

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Men, Doctors, Average

Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.137, Univ of California Press

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Pride, Vanity, Arrogance

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.406, Courier Corporation

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Funny, Marriage, Death

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.563, Jazzybee Verlag

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

Animal, Men, Thinking

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.85, Univ of California Press

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Forgiveness, Death, Suicide

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Facts, Empty, Theory

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Deceiving Others, People, Deception

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.224, Univ of California Press

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Sarcastic, Inspiration, Useless

Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.129, Xist Publishing

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Education, Teacher, Teaching

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.390, Courier Corporation

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Temptation, Deals

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Freedom, Champion, Liberty

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.405, Courier Corporation

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

Mistake, People, Baths

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.19, Courier Corporation

When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.

Jobs, Indulge In, Ignorant

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.4, Univ of California Press

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

Men, Armor, Proud

Mark Twain (1979). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.323, Univ of California Press

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Truth, Inspiration, Prevailing

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

History, Sometimes, Rhyme

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

House, Taxes, Profanity

Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.127, University of Missouri Press

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

Humor, Sides, Good Nature

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.190, Courier Corporation

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

Piano, Musical, Age

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5802, Delphi Classics

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Christian, Inspiration, Practice

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Inspirational, Sheep, Waiting

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.338, Courier Corporation

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Inspirational, Mother, Fear

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Corn, Feeding

The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

Calamity, Prepared

Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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