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Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain quotes about thinking

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

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I am quite sure ... I have no race prejudice, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All I care to know is that a man is a human being—this is enough for me; he can’t be any worse. Mark Twain
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. Mark Twain
You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it. Mark Twain
Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name, when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing. Mark Twain
The choir always tittered and whispered all through service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was, now. It was a great many years ago, and I can scarcely remember anything about it, but I think it was in some foreign country. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children."
I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children. Mark Twain
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was..."
Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what..."
S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think? Mark Twain
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I..."
I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late."
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have..."
There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what..."
It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what we think we know, that just ain't so. Mark Twain

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