Quotes by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Lived from: 1835 - 1910

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 30 november 1835 Died: 21 april 1910

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  • One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
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  • Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'.
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  • Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.
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  • Patriot : the person who can shout the loudest without knowing where he is crying about .
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  • Patriotismis is loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it .
    The Czar's Soliloquy
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  • People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
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  • Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
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  • Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
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  • Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
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  • Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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  • Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
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  • Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
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  • Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
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  • Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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  • Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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  • Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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  • Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
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  • Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
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  • She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
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  • Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.
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