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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  • Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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  • Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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  • Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
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  • Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
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  • That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
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  • The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
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  • The best way to cheer yourself up is to try someone else to cheer.
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  • The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
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  • The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
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  • The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
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  • The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
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  • The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
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  • The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
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  • The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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  • The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
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  • The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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  • The human race has an effective weapon and that is laughter.
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  • The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.
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  • The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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  • The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
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