Author Topic: ~ Mark Twain Quotes ~ (Read 11055 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #150 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:56:12 PM »

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

MysteRy · « **Reply #151 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:56:45 PM »

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.

MysteRy · « **Reply #152 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:57:16 PM »

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

MysteRy · « **Reply #153 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:57:52 PM »

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

MysteRy · « **Reply #154 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:58:22 PM »

Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

MysteRy · « **Reply #155 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:58:55 PM »

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

MysteRy · « **Reply #156 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:59:27 PM »

When the human race has once acquired a supersitition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #157 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:59:59 PM »

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse yet he has left it out of his heaven.

MysteRy · « **Reply #158 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:00:31 PM »

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.

MysteRy · « **Reply #159 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:01:03 PM »

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

MysteRy · « **Reply #160 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:01:42 PM »

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.

MysteRy · « **Reply #161 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:02:13 PM »

Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

MysteRy · « **Reply #162 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:02:44 PM »

The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #163 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:03:14 PM »

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: 'Yes: the little one does.'

MysteRy · « **Reply #164 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:03:43 PM »

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance stupidity and perjury.

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