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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 51

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

Engineering, Skills, Rivers

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Hate, Love You, Enemy

A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

Faith, Confidence, Religious

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

Equality, Perfect, Perfect Love

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

Christian, Country, America

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.337

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Funny, Humor, Fool

Mark Twain (1995). “Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic”

No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

Skulls, Flying, Retail

Mark Twain (2014). “The American Claimant”, p.58, Jazzybee Verlag

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

Doe, Inattention, Silent

Mark Twain (2015). “The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.171, Library of Alexandria

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

Streets, Constantinople, Ought

Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.359, Velvet Element Books

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Tragedy, Plus

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Thinking, New Orleans, Edinburgh

Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

Dream, Nature, Eye

Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

Lying, Vanity, Color

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.17, St. Martin's Press

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Inspiration, Rising, Poverty

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.46, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

Inspiring, One Day At A Time, Action

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

Horse, Laughing, Ordinary

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

Hunting, Long, Waiting

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

The funniest things are the forbidden.

Funny, Humorous, Novelists

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.304, Univ of California Press

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

Men, Law, Political

Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.227, Createspace Independent Pub

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

Funny, Home, Gambling

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

War, Lying, Men

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.

Religious, Political, Enemy

Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.142, Createspace Independent Pub

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

Lying, Cowboy, Railroads

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.394, Courier Corporation

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

Funny, Humorous, Thinking

Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.107

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