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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 87

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Honesty, Six, Sometimes

Mark Twain (1897). “More Tramps Abroad”

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

Sound, Mouths, Slang

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.6, Courier Corporation

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

Oysters, Ants, Bees

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.169, Courier Corporation

Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

Men, Blood, Despair

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.7, Univ of California Press

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Speaks French, Speak, I Can

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Kings, Teaching, Book

Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper”, p.19, Xist Publishing

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

Writing, Want, Satisfaction

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

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

Thinking, Water, World

Mark Twain, Dixon Wecter, Mary Mason Fairbanks (1949). “Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks”, San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

Children, Thinking, Edited

Mark Twain (1995). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 4: 1870–1871”, p.284, Univ of California Press

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Truth, Long, Mind

Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Truth, People, Fiction

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.484, Courier Corporation

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

Men, Years, Wife

Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.417, Penguin

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Characteristics, Humans

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3881, Delphi Classics

Modesty died when clothes were born.

Fashion, Clothes, Modesty

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

Sarcastic, Somewhere Else, Advice

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.74, Courier Corporation

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

Sarcastic, Heart, Worry

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.8233, e-artnow

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Sarcastic, Waiting, Vacancy

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Learning, Cat, Men

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

Inspirational Life, Challenges, Feelings

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

Inspirational Life, Successful, Preparation

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

Running, Inspirational Life, Taken

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

Country, Mind, Experts

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.118, Univ of California Press

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Honesty, Men, Honest

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

Honesty, Men, Honest

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

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

Honesty, Able, Honest

Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.18, Purdue University Press

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