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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 49

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

God, Religion, Atheism

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.207, Courier Corporation

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

Years, Differences, Long

Mark Twain (1876). “Mississippi Writings”, p.333, Library of America

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

People, Servant, Chosen

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.387, Courier Corporation

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

Thinking, Finding Yourself, Sides

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

Lying, Mushrooms, Two

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

Upset, Oratory, World

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

Weather, Littles, Done

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

Father, Good Father, Shows

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

Schedules, Crafts, Landscape

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Training, Training And Education

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

Old Habits, Steps, Window

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

Death, Men, Brave

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

Inspirational Life, Adversity, Ignorance

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

Science, Past, Years

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

Ideas, Kaleidoscope, New Ideas

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9071, Delphi Classics

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Country, Two, Independence

Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.27, Courier Corporation

The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

Cutting, Hard Times, Two

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

Taken, Sleep, Tired

Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

Ideas, Breaking Rules, Young

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

Optimistic, Breakfast, Optimist

Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

Men, Age, Bitterness

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.154, Courier Corporation

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

Better Days, Knows, Values

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.384, Courier Corporation

Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

Fool, Natural, Surface

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.8869, e-artnow

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

Race, Numbers, Four

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.442, Univ of California Press

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

Funny, Humorous, Cat

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.706, Jazzybee Verlag

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