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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 72

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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Home, Lakes, Sea

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2339, GENERAL PRESS

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

Art, Philosophy, History

'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

France

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.318, Univ of California Press

The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

Dog, Lying, Sleep

Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.202, Penguin

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

Dog, Lying, Sleep

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

Real, Heart, Pleasure

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.248, Univ of California Press

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

Names, Principles, Prejudice

Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.60, Courier Corporation

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

Inspirational, Planning, Surprise

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

Writing, Perfect, Done

Mark Twain (2015). “Christian Science”, p.66, Sheba Blake Publishing

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

Flattery, Compliment, Delivery

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.130, Univ of Wisconsin Press

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

People, Mad, News

What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

Names, Becky, Call Me

Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

Outsiders, Measurement, Size

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.30, Univ of Wisconsin Press

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

Funny, Travel, Humor

The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 27

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

Sunday, America, Issues

Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.155, 谷月社

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

Country, Apology, Done

Tom Sawyer Abroad ch. 12 (1894)

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

Regret, Opportunity, Thinking

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.787, Jazzybee Verlag

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN Ultimate Collection: 370+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, A Horse’s Tale, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.3737, e-artnow

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

Men, Civilization, Mind

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

Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Loyalty, Heart, Government

Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). “Life as I find it [by] Mark Twain [pseud.] Essays, sketches, tales, and other material, the majority of which is now published in book form for the first time: edited, with an introd. and notes”

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Race, Together, Way

Mark Twain (1924). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.225, Univ of Wisconsin Press

You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

Lying, Want, Caught

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

Distance, California, Giving

Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.297, Xist Publishing

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

Men, Might, Uncertain

Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

Promise, Enterprise

Mark Twain (1870). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author”, p.650

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