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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  • To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
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  • To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
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  • To reject awards is another way to accept them with more noise than normal.
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  • To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
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  • To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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  • To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
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  • True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
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  • Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
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  • Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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  • Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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  • Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
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  • Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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  • War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
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  • Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
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  • Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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  • We are all alike, on the inside.
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  • We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
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  • We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
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  • We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
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  • We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.
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