Author Topic: ~ Mark Twain Quotes ~ (Read 11034 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #180 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:11:53 PM »

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

MysteRy · « **Reply #181 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:12:22 PM »

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

MysteRy · « **Reply #182 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:12:54 PM »

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #183 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:13:23 PM »

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

MysteRy · « **Reply #184 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:13:52 PM »

Well enough for old folks to rise early because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

MysteRy · « **Reply #185 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:14:23 PM »

Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.

MysteRy · « **Reply #186 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:14:57 PM »

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount that man isn't rich.

MysteRy · « **Reply #187 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:15:28 PM »

In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

MysteRy · « **Reply #188 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:15:58 PM »

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

MysteRy · « **Reply #189 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:16:31 PM »

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

MysteRy · « **Reply #190 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:17:10 PM »

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

MysteRy · « **Reply #191 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:17:42 PM »

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

MysteRy · « **Reply #192 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:18:16 PM »

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

MysteRy · « **Reply #193 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:18:47 PM »

It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

MysteRy · « **Reply #194 on:** April 13, 2015, 05:19:16 PM »

I wish to become rich so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little like those kind-hearted fat benevolent people do.

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