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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 71

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God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Men, Effort, Found

Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”

Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

Love, Cute, Sweet

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

Teaching, Ideas, Personality

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

Life, Men, Play

Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.517, University of Alabama Press

In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

Lying, Believe, Sleep

Mark Twain, John C. Gerber, Terry Firkins (1983). “Tom Sawyer Abroad ; Tom Sawyer Detective”, p.180, Univ of California Press

No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

Real, Men, Judging

Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

Dollars, Use, Fifty

The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

Ideas

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

Inspiration, Wine, Pens

Mark Twain (1977). “Life as I Find it: Essays, Sketches, and Tales, the Majority of which are Now Published in Book Form for the First Time”, HarperCollins Publishers

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

Men, Race, Lust

Mark Twain (1969). “Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909”, p.78, Univ of California Press

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

Men, Sand, Crops

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.297, eKitap Projesi

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

Optimistic, Race, Talking

Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1987). “The outrageous Mark Twain: some lesser-known but extraordinary works : with "Reflections on religion" now in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Optimistic, Clothes, Optimism

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Ignorance, Thinking, Ignorant

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Philosophical, Passion, Self

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3957, Delphi Classics

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

Political, Moral

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.291, Courier Corporation

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

Jugs, Dutch, Milk

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Pain, Relief, Investment

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.175, Courier Corporation

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

War, Moon, Men

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Civil War”, p.21, University Press of Kentucky

I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

Thinking, Complaining, Resentment

Mark Twain (1917). “Mark Twain's Letters”

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

Two, Smoking, Balance

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Truth, Alive, Truth Is

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

Doe, Complaining, Violence

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

Character, Firsts, Assuming

Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.17, Purdue University Press

I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

Soap Bubbles, World, Wonder

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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