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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 64

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Education, Wise, Stupid

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

Book, Good Company, Company

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.262, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

God, Differences, Editors

Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

Writing, Years, Three

"Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890".

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

Christian, Months, Compliment

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

Nature, Miracle

Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.298, Xist Publishing

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

Children, Book, Years

Mark Twain (2015). “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.7, Booklassic

Be good and you'll be lonesome

Lonesome, Be Good

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

Beauty, Beautiful, Sight

Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.71, Courier Corporation

Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.

Bible, Girl, Children

Mark Twain (1995). “The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood”, p.256, University of Georgia Press

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

Church, Tails, Credit

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

Men, Republic, Life Is

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

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

Twenties, Four, Deeds

Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.860, Library of America

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Prayer, Taken, Dust

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3367, Delphi Classics

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

Failure, Secret, Judgment

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

Desire, Riches, Poverty

Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.157, Penguin

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

Schooling, Interfere

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

Animal, Oxygen, Two

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

One Direction, Reform, Overboard

Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.171, Univ of California Press

Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

Tight Pants, Pants, Uncomfortable

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

Children, Insult, Shameful

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Soul, Religion, World

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.198, Courier Corporation

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Awful, Huckleberry, Humans

Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

Birthday, Men, Endurance

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

Suicide, Suicidal, People

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