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Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain quotes

American Author, Writer November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

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Mark Twain quote: "There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one..."
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. Mark Twain
Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two. There - that is it. That is the way good little boys and girls should do. I see one little girl who is looking out of the window - I am afraid she thinks I am out there somewhere - perhaps up in one of the trees making a speech to the little birds. [Applausive titter.] Mark Twain
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as... Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I’m so happy I could scalp somebody. (Said after he got married)"
I’m so happy I could scalp somebody. (Said after he got married) Mark Twain
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "No man is a failure who has friends"
No man is a failure who has friends Mark Twain
You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends Mark Twain
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them--and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,--push it a little-- crowd it a little--weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can... Mark Twain
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: 'I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars. Mark Twain
I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look,..."
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies..."
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals..."
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see,..."
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. Mark Twain

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