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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 56

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We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Life, Focus, Vision

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

War, Eagles, Land

Mark Twain (1970). “King Leopold's Soliloquy”, p.8, LeftWord Books

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

Education, School, Knowledge

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.425, Courier Corporation

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

War, Lynching, Names

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.368, Univ of California Press

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Men, Envy, Gossip

Mark Twain, Arthur Grove Day (1975). “Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii”, p.171, University of Hawaii Press

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

Thinking, Bears

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1054, Delphi Classics

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Republic, Citizenship, Monarchy

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7247, Delphi Classics

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Art, Horse, Ordinary

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.181, Courier Corporation

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

Forgiveness, Boys, Forgiving

Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

Faults, Adults, Teeth

Mark Twain (1913). “Roughing it”

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

Together, Legends, Looks

Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.174

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

Writing, Editing, Plain Language

Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn (1981). “The annotated Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Random House Value Pub

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

Kings, Ornery, Way

Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.137, Classics HD

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

Heart, Civilization

Mark Twain (1979). “A pen warmed-up in hell: Mark Twain in protest”, Harpercollins

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Fashion, Inspiration, Men

Autobiography vol. 1 (1924)

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

Clothes, Arbitrary, Use

Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875”, p.660, Univ of California Press

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

Funny, Believe, Humor

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.12, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

Book, Arcs, Wells

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.243, Courier Corporation

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Inspirational, Funny, Writing

"Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend".

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Laughter, Philosophy, Humor

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.190, Courier Corporation

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Truth, Believe, Mean

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.470, 谷月社

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

Form, Capture, Simplest

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