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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 43

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

God, Thinking, Voice

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.44, St. Martin's Press

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Funny Inspirational, Men, Differences

Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.19, Univ of California Press

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Inspirational, Life, Positive

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Editors, Trying, Newspapers

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.97, Courier Corporation

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Hope, Tree, Lord

Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.115, 1st World Publishing

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Teacher, Educational, Learning

Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays”

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

Ink, Machines, May

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

Funny, Father, Humor

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

Funny, Truth, World

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.42, Univ of Wisconsin Press

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

Stars, Moon, Sky

Mark Twain (2016). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.101, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Inspirational, Success, Work

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

Good Luck, Wish, Alive

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2446, GENERAL PRESS

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

Over You, Free Will, Moments

Mark Twain (2012). “My Autobiography: "Chapters" from the North American Review”, p.4, Courier Corporation

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Book, Writing, Successful

Letter to H. H. Rogers, 26 - 28 Apr. 1897

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

Religious, Humorous, Eye

Mark Twain (2012). “Adventures of Tom Sawyer Companion”, p.41, BookCaps Study Guides

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Business, Light, Media

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.274, Univ of California Press

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Wine, Water, Likes

Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

Real, Mind, Passing Away

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1580, GENERAL PRESS

Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

Dog, Selfish, War

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.8364, e-artnow

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

Food, Long, Cooking

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.85, Univ of California Press

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

God, Christian, Army

"Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.

Book, Cat, Dust

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.55, Chartwell

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

Curves, Hands, Seductive

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

Love, Love Is, Madness

Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.104, Xist Publishing

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