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You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's

You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

Mark Twain
Bird, Feelings, Humanity
Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.163, Penguin

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

Mark Twain
Money, Gold, Twenties
Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.117, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Mark Twain
Drinking, Abstinence, Liquor
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.360, Courier Corporation

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

Mark Twain
Thinking, Rights, Arrogance
Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.723, eKitap Projesi

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Mark Twain
Vain, Made
Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.23, Univ of California Press

I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

Mark Twain
Lonely, New York, Race
Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.82, University of Missouri Press

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

Mark Twain
Men, Unhappy, Cheerful
Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.279, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

Mark Twain
Father, Boys, Broken
Mark Twain (2014). “Short Stories And Sketches (Annotated Edition)”, p.395, Jazzybee Verlag

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

Mark Twain
Rome, Thrill, Charm
Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.267

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

Mark Twain
Mother, Matter, Becoming
Mark Twain (2013). “Gold Miners & Guttersnipes: Tales of California”, p.70, Chronicle Books

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

Mark Twain
Music, Hypocrisy, Bully
Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.293, Wordsworth Editions

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

Mark Twain
Sad, Music, Feels
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.309, Courier Corporation

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Mark Twain
Freedom, Labor Day, Pleasure
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.479, Jazzybee Verlag

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

Mark Twain
Party, Moving, Law
Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.79, Univ of Wisconsin Press

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

Mark Twain
Soldier, Safe, Nations
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.456, Courier Corporation

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Mark Twain
Father, Son, Men
Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

Mark Twain
Cute, Rags, Sugar
Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.7, Collector's Library

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

Mark Twain
Fashion, Silly, Names
Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

Mark Twain
Thinking, Physicians, Half
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.84, Courier Corporation

Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

Mark Twain
Law, Idiot, Made
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

Mark Twain
Book, Interesting, Looks
Mark Twain (2016). “Tom Sawyer Collection - All Four Books”, p.422, Enhanced Media Publishing

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

Mark Twain
Book, Chloroform, Print

They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

Mark Twain
Bread, Compliment, Live By

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Mark Twain
Europe, Ideas, Backwards
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.194, Courier Corporation

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

Mark Twain
Angel, Southern, Boon

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