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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 41

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I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Born, Spots, Relation

Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.127, Createspace Independent Pub

I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?

Buffets, Happens

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

Hair, Argument, Grows

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Love, Marriage, Wedding

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.8291, e-artnow

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

Religious, Educational, School

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Peace, Thinking, Race

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

Moon, Men, Want

Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.206, Univ of California Press

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

Funny, Humorous, Men

Address on the 4th of July, delivered 4 July 1899, London, England

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Grief, Loss, Years

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Memories, Loss, Grieving

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.180, Univ of California Press

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

Inspirational, Men, Energy

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8014, Delphi Classics

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

Death, Heart, Broken

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Grateful, Long, Trying

Mark Twain (2015). “Sketches New and Old: Ghost Story Collections”, p.49, 谷月社

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Wisdom, May, Unexamined Life

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

Dog, Animal, Men

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Art, Difficult, Prophecy

Andrew Leckey, Mark Twain (2001). “The Lack of Money is the Root of All Evil: Mark Twain's Timeless Advice on Money and Wealth for Today's Investor”

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

Inspirational Life, Support You, Goal

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

Mean, Thinking, Political

Letter to the Editor, N.Y. Daily Tribune, 10 Mar. 1873

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

Sorry, Greatness, Names

Mark Twain's speech to the Savage Club (June 9, 1899), as quoted in "Mark Twain's Speeches" edited by William Dean Howells (pp. 277-278), 1910.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Sarcastic, Party, Sarcasm

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.328, Courier Corporation

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

Funny, Humor, Law

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.230, Courier Corporation

I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

Years, Ideas, Comforting

Zane Grey, Max Brand, Owen Wister, James Fenimore Cooper, B. M. Bower (2017). “60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…”, p.4057, e-artnow

It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

Lying, Greatness, Land

Mark Twain, Arthur Grove Day (1975). “Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii”, p.274, University of Hawaii Press

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

Reality, Crisis, Happens

In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

Forgiveness, Memories, Mean

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