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Mark Twain Quotes about Giving

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Beautiful, Giving, Beautiful Day

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

Love, Giving, Want

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

Swimming, People, Giving

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Giving, Talent, Advantage

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

Giving, Advice

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

Glasses, Ideas, Giving

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.4051, e-artnow

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

Two, Giving, Design

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

German Language, Giving, Awful

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.121, Univ of California Press

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

Coffee, Wine, Giving

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Funny, Humor, Giving

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Eye, Giving, Sticks

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3980, Delphi Classics

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

Sleep, Men, Giving

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Smell, Giving, Lavender

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

Hunting, Names, Giving

Mark Twain (2011). “No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger”, p.130, Univ of California Press

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

Boys, Apples, Giving

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

Fall, Men, Giving

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8014, Delphi Classics

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

Two, People, Giving

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.442, Univ of California Press

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Memories, Giving, Tongue

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

Sex, Men, Giving

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

Real, Two, Giving

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

Distance, California, Giving

Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.297, Xist Publishing

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

Mean, Giving, Frozen

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

Giving, Furniture, Break

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.185, Courier Corporation

I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

Glasses, Hypocrisy, Giving

R. Kent Rasmussen, Mark Twain (2013). “Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers”, p.178, Univ of California Press

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

Humble, Turkeys, Giving

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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