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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 52

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The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

Lying, Might, Skepticism

Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.62, Courier Corporation

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Prayer, Cutting, Enemy

Mark Twain (2011). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtUn yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo: English-Spanish Parallel Text Edition Volume One”, p.220, Lulu.com

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Rafting, Easy, Transport

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 18 (1884)

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

Men, Ignorant, Gold

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.583, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Successful, Reflection, America

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.73, Univ of California Press

Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

Men, Order, Two

Mark Twain (2008). “Life on the Mississippi (Volume 1 of 3 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.167, ReadHowYouWant.com

We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

Daughter, America, Envy

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.80, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

Suffering, Body, States

Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.386, University of Iowa Press

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Atheist, Believe, Men

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.402, Courier Corporation

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Witty, Money, Funny Inspirational

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.61, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

Literature, Imitation

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.246, Courier Corporation

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Funny, Witty, Humorous

"The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

Book, Writing, Years

Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.4, Univ of California Press

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

Country, Religious, War

Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.392, Univ of California Press

Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

Mind, Naked, World

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

Ocean, Cat, Men

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.55, eKitap Projesi

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Women, People, Would Be

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1026, Jazzybee Verlag

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Patriotic, Fighting, Ink And Paper

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

Beauty, Appreciation, Overestimate

Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents, and Adventures as They Appeared to the Author”, p.546

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

Wonderful, Easier, Teach

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Kings, Men, Soul

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.383, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

God, People, Suffering

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

Book, Writing, Use

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.54, Chartwell

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

Drinking, Beer, Politics

Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.151, Xist Publishing

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

Angel, Happened, Has Beens

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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