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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 38

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Teaching, Trying, Underwater

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Mother, Knees, Ideals

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.195, Courier Corporation

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Men, Way, Rich

Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.711, Library of America

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

Bears, Dozen, Compliment

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Funny, Smoking, Literature

"The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Funny, Sarcastic, Inspiration

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.257, Courier Corporation

The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

Christian, Humble, Men

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.284, Courier Corporation

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Glasses, Ideas, Hours

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

Ties, Stupidity, Four

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.458, Courier Corporation

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in man's construction is this: During your entire life you shall be under inflexible limits and restrictions, sexually. During twenty-three days in every month (in absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also she wants that candle - yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

Sex, Pregnancy, Heart

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Inspirational, Half, Morality

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Inspirational, Optimistic, Men

Notebook, Dec. 1902

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

Country, Usa, People

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

Christian, Political, Bears

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.77, BIG BYTE BOOKS

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Leadership, Education, Trying

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Eye, Giving, Sticks

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3980, Delphi Classics

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

Hero, Self, Years

Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.698, e-artnow

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

Mean, Given, Exaggeration

Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.76, Xist Publishing

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

Religious, Atheist, Believe

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.55, St. Martin's Press

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Age, Earth, Way

Mark Twain (2015). “Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.689, Litres

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

Fighting, Army, Men

Mark Twain (2015). “Annotated Huckleberry Finn with English Grammar Exercises: by Mark Twain (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.160, Powell Publications, LLC

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

Lying, Book, Age

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.234, Courier Corporation

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

Beautiful, Memories, Mind

Mark Twain (1870). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author”, p.585

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Spiritual, Powerful, Book

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.521, Courier Corporation

The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

Men, Emergencies, Approval

Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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