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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 67

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Happiness, Happy, People

Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.103, Book Tree

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Long, Sometimes, Spots

Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.352, Univ of California Press

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Taken, Sleep, Exercise

Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

Real, Science, Ideas

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.211, Xist Publishing

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

Book, Ideas, America

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4281, Delphi Classics

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

Money, Writing, Cities

Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Great Speeches”, p.134, Courier Corporation

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

Party, Independent, Writing

Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography”, p.1235, e-artnow

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

Inspiration, People, Interesting

Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.196, Univ of California Press

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

Rain, New Orleans, People

Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.205, 谷月社

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

Race, Important, Together

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.188, Courier Corporation

The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

Opportunity, Race, Grind

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.187, Courier Corporation

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Honesty, Thinking, Way

Mark Twain (2014). “The Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.654, e-artnow

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Law, History, Periods

Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

Criticism, Pay, Compliment

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

God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

God, Writing, Attention

Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

Vacancy, World, Authority

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.46, Univ of California Press

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

Powerful, Light, Agents

Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.140, 谷月社

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

Men, Dread, Happens

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4637, Delphi Classics

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

Mean, People, Feels

Mark Twain (2013). “Gold Miners & Guttersnipes: Tales of California”, p.28, Chronicle Books

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

Long Ago, Years, Long

There is no accounting for human beings.

Humans, Accounting, Human Beings

Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.185, Mark Twain

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

Way, Found, Autobiography

Mark Twain (1969). “Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909”, p.611, Univ of California Press

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

Writing, Trying, Boards

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

Thinking, Eclipse Of The Sun, Half

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Rivers, Denial, Egyptian

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