Author Topic: ~ Mark Twain Quotes ~ (Read 11080 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #165 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:04:17 PM »

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

MysteRy · « **Reply #166 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:04:47 PM »

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

MysteRy · « **Reply #167 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:05:17 PM »

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it is the parts that I do understand.

MysteRy · « **Reply #168 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:05:44 PM »

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.

MysteRy · « **Reply #169 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:06:13 PM »

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

MysteRy · « **Reply #170 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:06:51 PM »

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

MysteRy · « **Reply #171 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:07:18 PM »

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

MysteRy · « **Reply #172 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:07:48 PM »

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

MysteRy · « **Reply #173 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:08:18 PM »

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

MysteRy · « **Reply #174 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:08:47 PM »

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

MysteRy · « **Reply #175 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:09:18 PM »

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

MysteRy · « **Reply #176 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:09:47 PM »

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.

MysteRy · « **Reply #177 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:10:14 PM »

It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

MysteRy · « **Reply #178 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:10:44 PM »

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

MysteRy · « **Reply #179 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:11:18 PM »

India has 2 000 000 gods and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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