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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  • If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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  • If you tell the truth, you have to remember anything.
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  • In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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  • In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''
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  • In his private heart no man much respects himself.
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  • In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
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  • In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
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  • In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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  • In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
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  • It 's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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  • It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
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  • It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
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  • It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
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  • It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
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  • It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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  • It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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  • It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
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  • It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
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  • It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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  • It is easier to stay out than get out.
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