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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 92

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Numbers, Remember, Astonishing

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.263, Courier Corporation

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

Travel, Consequence

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.1, Courier Corporation

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Mother, Father, Men

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

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Home, Cat, Tails

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

Beautiful, Two, Years

Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…”, p.823, e-artnow

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Names, Differences, Polka

Mark Twain (1957). “Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864”

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

Funny, Humorous, Names

Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.131, 谷月社

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

Funny, Humorous, Years

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.311, Courier Corporation

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

Funny, Hate, Humorous

The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

Two, Unknown Person, Planets

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4064, Delphi Classics

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

Men, Doe, Use

Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.335, University of Alabama Press

The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

Dream, Luxury, Soul

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3191, Delphi Classics

Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

Differences, World, Exhibitions

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.86, Univ of California Press

A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

Fun, World, Body

Mark Twain (2016). “Joan of Arc”, p.159, Ignatius Press

This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

Mirrors, People, Glimpse

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.12, Univ of California Press

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Men, Hands, May

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.46, Courier Corporation

I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

Hands, Soul, Portraits

Mark Twain (1933). “Mark Twain's works”

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

Believe, Portraits, Canvas

Mark Twain (1935). “The complete short stories and humorous sketches of Mark Twain”

But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

Humorous, Ophelia, Thee

1884 The Duke's version of Hamlet's soliloquy, combining elements of other speeches by Hamlet and pieces of Macbeth. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.21.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Travel, Humorous, Foreigners

The Innocents Abroad ch. 19 (1869)

I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

Country, Believe, Humor

Mark Twain's "New England Weather" speech, www.pbs.org. 1876.

In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.

Party, Men, Political

Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.27, 1st World Publishing

I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects werefor, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.

Hate, Ignorance, People

Mark Twain (2013). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to themwho have the organ of hope preposterously developedwho are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperamentwho never feel concerned about the price of cornand who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a pictureare very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power.

Horse, People, Matter

Mark Twain (2017). “Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn – The Great American Adventure (Illustrated): Complete 4 Novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective (Including Author’s Biography)”, p.871, e-artnow

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

Natural, Clock, Wanted

Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875”, p.306, Univ of California Press

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