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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 32

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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Essentials, Speech, Information

Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.174, Univ of California Press

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

Atheist, Men, Church

Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Love, Life, Success

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Dog, Animal, Men

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.81, Univ of California Press

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

Funny, Marriage, New Year

Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

Regret, Healing, Riding Your Bike

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

Government, Knowing, Ass

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Liberty, Trials, Good Things

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Writing, Nonsense

Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.84, Courier Corporation

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Neat And Tidy, Soul, Dresses

"The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

Make your vacation your vocation.

Vacation, Vocation

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Precious Stones, Gold, Genius

Mark Twain, “Genius”

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

Writing, Exclamation Points, Laughing

Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Running, Men, Approval

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Religious, Yield, Natural Instinct

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.85, Book Tree

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Regret, Hero, Men

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.254, Courier Corporation

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Parenting, Parent, Honest

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Confidence, Good Life, Inspirational Life

Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.14, 谷月社

Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

Coffee, Aggravation, Smell

Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

Teach

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

Marriage, Men, Wife

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.491, Courier Corporation

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

New Orleans, United States, Mardi Gras

Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Fire, Looks

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 35 (1889)

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

Dog, Long, Lost

Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.68, Courier Corporation

Geological time is not money.

Time, Money, Geological Time

Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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