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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 47

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Fake People, Truth, Inspirational Life

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Respect, Life Changing, Life Lesson

1897 Following the Equator, ch.29.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

Growing Up, Maturity, People

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

Pain, Revenge, Lying

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Class, Names, Perception

Mark Twain, Bernard L. Stein (1983). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.239, Univ of California Press

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Universal

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

Taken, Wish, Sin

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Race, Coward, Human Condition

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.130, Univ of California Press

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

Fear, Atheism, Would Be

Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.277, The Floating Press

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

Teaching, Men, Fool

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3099, GENERAL PRESS

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Inspirational, Motivational, Hero

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

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mind, Littles, Belly

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.267, Courier Corporation

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

God, Christian, Men

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

Heart, Men, Skin Color

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

Writing, Inconvenience

Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.471, Univ of California Press

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

Crush, War, Race

Mark Twain (2014). “The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories”, p.143, Diderot Publishing

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

Opportunity, Men, Gambling

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

Advice, Today, Tomorrow

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.94, Courier Corporation

The southerner talks music.

Southerner

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Idiotic, Conventionality, Humans

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.508, eKitap Projesi

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

Popularity

Mark Twain (1982). “No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Being an Ancient Tale Found in a Jug and Freely Translated from the Jug”, p.26, Univ of California Press

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Funny, Truth, Inspirational Life

Attributed in "A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense" by Mark Twain, Seven Stories Press, (p. 61), January 4, 2011.

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

Differences, Austin, Salary

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

Men, Wealth, Servant

Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). “Life as I find it [by] Mark Twain [pseud.] Essays, sketches, tales, and other material, the majority of which is now published in book form for the first time: edited, with an introd. and notes”

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

Beauty, Baby, Noses

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2422, Delphi Classics

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