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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 73

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Men, Luck, Helping

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.127, Chartwell

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.407, Courier Corporation

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

Men, Years, One Day

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

Growing Up, Aunt, President

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Feelings, Way, Reason

Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.83, Createspace Independent Pub

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

Laughing, Together, Stories

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”, Library of America

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Determination, Compliment, Dies

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4206, Delphi Classics

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Defeat, Human Nature, Scorn

1897 Joan of Arc, bk.1, ch.8.

I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.

Opportunity, Thinking, Effort

Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.342, Penguin

Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.

Jesus, Men, Race

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

Queens, Hands, Gone

Following the Equator ch. 24, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

Phantoms, Half, Wells

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.515, Courier Corporation

Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

Camelot, Said

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

Interesting, Curious, Nickels

Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.177, Univ of California Press

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

Book, Want, Wonderful

The real yellow peril: Gold.

Real, Yellow, Gold

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.284, Courier Corporation

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

Children, Real, Party

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2007, GENERAL PRESS

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

Age, Way, Pushing

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

These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

People, Adultery, Break

Mark Twain (1995). “Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic”

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Change, Men, Law

Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1192, Library of America

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

God, Block, Men

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Daughter, People, Luck

Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

Rain, Water, Problem

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

Years, Two, Alive

Mark Twain (2011). “Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians: And Other Unfinished Stories”, p.285, Univ of California Press

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

Sunday, Use, Weekdays

Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.498, University of Alabama Press

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