Mark Twain Quotes - Page 26

• In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Jobs, Real

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• Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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  Piano, Musical, Age

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5802, Delphi Classics

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca
  
  Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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  Communication, Love Is, Skills

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• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

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  Dream, Lonely, Loneliness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

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• Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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  Men, Fruit, Known

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• My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

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  Memories, Blank, Loaded

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

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  Sweet, Years, Mind

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• One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

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  Home, House, May

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• The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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  Opinion, Persons

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• All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

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  Issues, Sides, Satan

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• To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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  Courage, Believe, Bravery

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

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  Satan, Helpers, Opposition

  Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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  Cousin, Use, Right Words

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.349, Penguin

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• Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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  Mean, Mind, Speech

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain”, p.402, Bantam Classics

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• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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  Funny, Motivational, Business

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 19, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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  Education, Dog, School

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

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• The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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  Certainty Of Death, Certainty In Life, Taxes

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• All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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  Honesty, Use, Made

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7394, Delphi Classics

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• Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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  Simple, Insanity, Insane

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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  Father, Science, Years

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• Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Autobiography (published in 1924).

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• Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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  Inspiration, Fishing, People

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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  Life, Sassy, Discovery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.59, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

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  Men, Ignorant

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