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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 30

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Popularity, Motto

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.298, Courier Corporation

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

Funny, Novelists, Krishna

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.117, BIG BYTE BOOKS

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

Christian, Brother, Prayer

Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

Country, Heart, People

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Good Life, Cancer, Positive Thinking

Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner “The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: The American claimant and other stories and sketches”

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Eccentric, Virtue, Virtuous

A Curious Dream (1872) "Mental Photographs"

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Silence, Progressive, Achieve

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.154, BIG BYTE BOOKS

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

Art, Writing, Together

Mark Twain (2016). “The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories”, p.179, Xist Publishing

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

Real, Chance, Sin

Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

Dream, Struggle, Past

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1257, GENERAL PRESS

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Dream, Lonely, Loneliness

The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

Broken, Smoking, Months

Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.266, University of Missouri Press

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Transition

Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.27, Courier Corporation

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Inspirational, Long, Expectations

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.473, Courier Corporation

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

Funny, Humor, Cat

Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.24, Xist Publishing

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

Disappointment, Years, Two

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.170, Courier Corporation

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

Funny, Humorous, Sleep

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

Issues, Sides, Satan

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Inspiration, Awards, Noise

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

Pain, Angel, Men

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

Heart, Eye, House

Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.251, 1st World Publishing

Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

Animal, Men, Doe

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

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

Attention, Pay, Flattery

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3362, Delphi Classics

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Principles, Election Time, Accounts

Mark Twain (2008). “Mark Twain's Speeches: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.123, ReadHowYouWant.com

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Shame, Grammar, Damn

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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