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Showing posts with label Mark Twain Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain Quotes. Show all posts
Work consists of whatever a bo...
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Work and play are words used t...
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ...
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
When we remember that we are a...
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
When I was younger, I could re...
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
When I was a boy of fourteen, ...
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
What a good thing Adam had - w...
What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
We should be careful to get ou...
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
We may not pay Satan reverence...
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
We are chameleons, and our par...
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
Tomorrow night I appear for th...
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
To get the full value of joy y...
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
To get the full value of a joy...
To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
To be satisfied with what one ...
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
There is no unhappiness like t...
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
There are those who would mist...
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
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