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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 65

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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

Writing, Pay, Offers

Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.644, Library of America

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Time, Men, Healthy Habits

Mark Twain (2011). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.79, Modern Library

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Love, Men, Envy

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.173, 谷月社

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Inspirational, Travel, Phrases

Mark Twain (2015). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.407, Sheba Blake Publishing

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

Religious, People

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.452, 谷月社

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

Angel, Speak English, Accents

Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

Mad, Intriguing, Moments

God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

Fun, Heaven, Climate

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Song, Language, Cry

Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.377, Xist Publishing

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

Money, Science, Scientist

The Bee (published 1917)

No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

Accumulation, Interest, Public Interest

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.275, Univ of California Press

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

Men, Museums, Machines

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.87, Univ of California Press

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

Philosophy, Men, Race

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.17, Univ of California Press

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

Disappointment, Men, Mind

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 22 (1889)

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

Beautiful, Men And Women, Acquaintance

"The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations".

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

Inspiration, Character, Personality

Pudd'nhead Wilson "A Whisper to the Reader," "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Inspiration, May, Hills

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Mind, Ethics And Morals, Morality

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.456, Courier Corporation

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

Opinion, Instance, Persons

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.338, Courier Corporation

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

Ideas, World, Curious

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.194, Courier Corporation

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

Believe, Reading, Eye

Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.158, University of Iowa Press

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Funny, Wise, Fathers Day

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Writing, Plain Language, Ideas

Mark Twain (1990). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868”, p.183, Univ of California Press

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

Literature, Sacred, Temples

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.79, St. Martin's Press

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

Circles, Two, Stories

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.55, Chartwell

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