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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 31

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Fruition, Opinion

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

Funny, Humorous, Heaven

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.382, Courier Corporation

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Truth, Lying, Believe

Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author’s Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…”, p.2794, e-artnow

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Humorous, Vanity, Grades

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.494, Courier Corporation

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

Dog, People, Knows

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Government, Agriculture, People

Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.354, Velvet Element Books

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Years, America, World

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

Ocean, Creativity, Sleep

Mark Twain (2011). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”, p.320, NewSouth Books

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

Time

1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.13.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Funny, Life, Friendship

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.28, St. Martin's Press

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

People, Criticism, Criticize

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Sky, People, Gold

Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

Loyalty, Men, Should Have

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Life, Money, Business

Following the Equator ch. 56, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

Example, Annoying, Good Examples

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

Change, Science, Religion

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

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

Anxiety, Mastery, Panic

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Food, Inspiration, Angel

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

Sea, Clothes, Noon

Mark Twain (2008). “Roughing It: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.249, ReadHowYouWant.com

Let your joy be unconfined!

Joy

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

Horse, Spirited, Bites

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Civilization, Barbarians, Human Nature

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

Strange is the man who practices his religion.

Men, Practice, Strange

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

Funny, Lonely, Humor

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