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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 91

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

Running, Heart, Preacher

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.370, Courier Corporation

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

People, Mind, Religion

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4097, Delphi Classics

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Years, Lazy, Limits

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.231, Courier Corporation

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

Girl, Fire, Enthusiasm

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.176, Univ of California Press

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Knowledge, Science, Rainbow

A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

Men, Thinking

Mark Twain (2016). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Illustrated): Complete version with illustration on each chapters”, p.127, Full Moon Publications

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

Inspirational, Death, Dying

Mark Twain (2016). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.94, Broadview Press

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

Heart, Sound, Guides

Mark Twain (2015). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers”

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

Dies, Ifs

Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

Switzerland, Bigs, Flats

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

Blood, Swim, Comfort

Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.414, Univ of California Press

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.

Children, Home, Boys

Mark Twain (2012). “Adventures of Tom Sawyer Companion”, p.124, BookCaps Study Guides

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

Writing, Mean, Plain Language

Mark Twain, Michael Patrick Hearn (1981). “The annotated Huckleberry Finn: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Random House Value Pub

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Thinking, Long, Want

Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.226, Sheba Blake Publishing

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Book, Adventure, Aunt

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 1 (1884)

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

School, Holiday, Fishing

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4550, Delphi Classics

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Charity, Scene, Curtains

Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ILLUSTRATED. : Illustrated by True Williams (Mobi Classics)”, p.46, MobileReference

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

Men, Thinking, Hands

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.26, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Funny, Time, Men

Mark Twain (1897). “More Tramps Abroad”

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Time, Drag, Stills

1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.6.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Time, Ignorance, Clothes

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

Time, Night, Boston

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Change, Prejudice, Easy

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.371, Courier Corporation

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Courage, Ignorance, Brave

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Life, Death, Gratitude

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 3, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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