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By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
ROALD DAHL My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea...
WALTER MOSLEY This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.
RUFUS KING A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The thing that makes Julian so special is his pure athleticism and love for the game. He is still le...
DAVE TALBOTT A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain
called "Huckleberry Finn."
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there...
LOUISE ERDRICH A man,who realizes the potential of his mind by means of introspection and contemplation, he does no...
SAM VEDA Feast of Luke the Evangelist He is my Altar, I His holy place; I am His guest, and He my living foo...
FRANCIS QUARLES The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischie...
GEORGE ORWELL The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is posse...
LIONEL TRILLING Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he want...
ROBIN G. COLLINGWOOD Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what he wan...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
VAL KILMER At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...
AYN RAND The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which command...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which comm...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain...
BIBLE My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventua...
JORGE LUIS BORGES No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a ma...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communic...
OSCAR WILDE A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.
VIKRANT PARSAI In many ways, Beckham is the perfect catch for an Indian mother. He loves his wife, he has a son, he...
GURINDER CHADHA An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insu...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h...
STEPHEN KING A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
MAX LERNER By the time a man realises that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.
UNKNOWN A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
THOMAS ALDRICH The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor an...
JAMES A. MICHENER The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his
work and his play, his labor an...
ZEN BUDDHIST The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitu...
JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitu...
JAMES ADAMS When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, "What is the best language...
LEONARD I. SWEET He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is fr...
BHAGAVAD GITA When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make
up his mind to be a little thrash...
THOMAS HUGHES A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ He who strikes his father or mother his hand will grow out of the grave.
VIKRANT PARSAI The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET ELLIS The writer in the new novel is haunted by everything - his father, the things he wrote. American Psy...
BRET EASTON ELLIS A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He?s very talented, which accounts for much of his success as a multimedia talent. Another key eleme...
PHILLANA WILLIAMS
He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have ...
R.A.LUCAS By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wro...
CHARLES WADWORTH By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wro...
CHARLES WADSWORTH By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has
a son who thinks he's wro...
CHARLES WADWORTH Judge a man by the comments of his neighbour rather than by the words of his mother.
VIKRANT PARSAI A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his ...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK My Father taught me how to be a man and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda ...
KEVIN SMITH That's an interesting hook, the notion of a father telling his children how he ultimately met their ...
DANA WALDEN My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si...
CORY BOOKER If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all princip...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must
recognize that it is...
VIKTOR FRANKL If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.
ABHIJIT NASKAR You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; bu...
MARK TWAIN By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She i...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectua...
VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that...
PREM RAWAT By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just whe...
ROBERT S. HILLYER A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He i...
HENRY MILLER Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such,...
ARTHUR KOESTLER Mark Twain supposedly observed, 'Don't pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper...
THOMAS F. CALCAGNI I suppose the Church would be perfect only if it were run by perfect beings. God is perfect, and His...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort whic...
GOTTHOLD LESSING My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen ...
JIM YONG KIM The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact t...
CONFUCIUS His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have n...
EMILY DICKINSON A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me...
VAN WYCK BROOKS The reason that he got a sitting with Washington was that his father was Charles Wilson Peale, a ver...
FRED VOSS Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C. He is called the Most Perfect of the Perfect. He sits upon His Perfect Throne. He looks so Beautiful...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be ...
AYN RAND A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor instead of by the polic...
UNKNOWN The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual’s freedom to alter his considerations of...
L. RON HUBBARD The movie that changed my life,' he liked to say, by which he meant that it had changed his wardrobe...
E. L. NEVE He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21:17
BIBLE Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, onl...
MAHATMA GANDHI They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease,
He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A ...
ROBERT TERWILLIGER He is a man who is not tortured by doubt over the correctness of his judicial philosophy.
BRUCE FEIN Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,
BILL BRADLEY Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]
GERARD WAY My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
SIDNEY POITIER
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
MARK TWAIN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
MARK TWAIN Distance lends enchantment to the view
MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
MARK TWAIN Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i...
MARK TWAIN Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us...
MARK TWAIN Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
MARK TWAIN Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
MARK TWAIN I do not like work even when someone else does it.
MARK TWAIN Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig...
MARK TWAIN Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
MARK TWAIN We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether th...
MARK TWAIN Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ...
MARK TWAIN When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
MARK TWAIN Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
MARK TWAIN Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the hum...
MARK TWAIN There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
MARK TWAIN I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he...
MARK TWAIN There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were...
MARK TWAIN People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
MARK TWAIN My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table ...
MARK TWAIN When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a te...
MARK TWAIN In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
MARK TWAIN Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evils.
MARK TWAIN His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
MARK TWAIN Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...
MARK TWAIN All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. ...
MARK TWAIN Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Traini...
MARK TWAIN We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only m...
MARK TWAIN There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
MARK TWAIN It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech...
MARK TWAIN There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
MARK TWAIN War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has no...
MARK TWAIN There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhe...
MARK TWAIN To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his...
MARK TWAIN One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
MARK TWAIN A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
MARK TWAIN A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
MARK TWAIN I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, b...
MARK TWAIN The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
MARK TWAIN A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversati...
MARK TWAIN Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expe...
MARK TWAIN Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.
MARK TWAIN It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
MARK TWAIN Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part cowar...
MARK TWAIN Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro...
MARK TWAIN Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
MARK TWAIN Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it ...
MARK TWAIN I've never let my school interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in al...
MARK TWAIN Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
MARK TWAIN If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal di...
MARK TWAIN A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going...
MARK TWAIN Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiment...
MARK TWAIN Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the ca...
MARK TWAIN If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...
MARK TWAIN The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...
MARK TWAIN The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
MARK TWAIN Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the reall...
MARK TWAIN If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
MARK TWAIN ′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAIN I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN