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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 21

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All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Funny, Music, Truth

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Honesty, Use, Made

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7394, Delphi Classics

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Worry, Duty

Mark Twain, Richard P. Wasowski (2004). “CliffsComplete Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Epic, Drawing, Silence

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

Drinking, Night, Scotch

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Coward, Seems

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.71, Courier Corporation

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

Taken, Acres, Bloodshed

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Emotion, Genuine, Involuntary

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Education, School, Greatness

When congress is in session no American is safe.

Safe, Congress, Session

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Genius, Hunger, Handmaids

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

Worry, Happened

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Inspirational, Success, Sarcastic

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Wise, Witty, Kindness

1889 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch.22.

There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

Christian, Religious, Caught

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

Real, Intelligent, Others Opinions

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.254, Univ of California Press

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Life, Success, Inspiration

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

Ideas, Succeed, Inventor

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

Believe, Men, Religion

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Funny Friendship, Exercise, Funeral

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

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

Learning, Science, Supposing That

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

Strength, Mistake, Aristocracy

Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN Ultimate Collection: 370+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, A Horse’s Tale, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.1507, e-artnow

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Spring, Inspiration, Years

"Rename April Fools' Day for the French" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Wise, Up Early, Bed

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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