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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  • When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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  • When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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  • When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
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  • When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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  • When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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  • Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Ch. 22
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  • Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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  • Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
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  • Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
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  • Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
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  • Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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  • Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
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  • Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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  • Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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  • Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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  • Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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  • Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.
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  • You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
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  • You can't pray a lie.
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  • You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus.
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