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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 24

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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

Relationship, Kindness, Men

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Fighting, Thinking, Government

Mark Twain (2010). “What Is Man?”, p.85, BoD – Books on Demand

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Sarcastic, Jobs, Real

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

Men, Fruit, Known

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

Memories, Blank, Loaded

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.261, Courier Corporation

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

Past, Firsts, Good Times

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.238, Courier Corporation

If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

Book, Ideas, Two

Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.1, Univ of California Press

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

Taken, Remains, Has Beens

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

Satan, Helpers, Opposition

Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Sad, Writing History, Historical

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Truth, Honesty, Politics

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Life, Pain, Animal

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

Past, Moments, Pondering

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

Sweet, Years, Mind

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

Theatre, Stories, Sometimes

Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.601, University of Alabama Press

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Communication, Love Is, Skills

I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

Horse, Believe, Speaks French

Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1020, Library of America

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

Fashion, Clothes, Modesty

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Music, Witty, Humorous

Autobiography (published in 1924).

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Hurt, Rain, Food

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.189, Univ of California Press

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Funny, Witty, Powerful

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

Cousin, Use, Right Words

Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.349, Penguin

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Religious, Men, Heaven

God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

Animal, Eight, Ideas

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