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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 25

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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Home, House, May

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Time, Advice, Literature

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.104, Book Tree

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

Taught Us, Mind, Hearing

Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.17, University of Missouri Press

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Life, Sassy, Discovery

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.59, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Education, Dog, School

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

Way, Snoring

Tom Sawyer Abroad ch. 10 (1894)

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

Miracle, Awe Inspiring, Awe

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.272, Courier Corporation

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

Honesty, Inspiration, Bbq

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

Rooms, Whiskey, Congress

Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.50, Purdue University Press

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Funny, Life, Witty

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Inspiration, Twenties, Firsts

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

San Francisco, Treated

Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.3, Courier Corporation

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

Use, Truth Is, Commodity

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Work, Grateful, Cutting

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

Clothes, Liberty, Doe

Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

Mean, Men, Ideas

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Loyalty, Country, Office

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 13 (1889)

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Math, Science, Return

Life on the Mississippi ch. 17 (1883)

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Political, Principles, Literature

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Truth, Believe, Mind

Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.201, Penguin

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

Honesty, Ignorance, Stupidity

Roughing It ch. 48 (1872)

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Men, Vices, Particles

"Answers to Correspondents". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The Californian (June 17, 1865), reprinted in Mark Twain's book "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches", 1867.

The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

Christian, Taken, Biblical

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Inspirational, Life, Forever

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

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

Business, Example, Succeed

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.226, Xist Publishing

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