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Mark Twain Quotes

«Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.»
«We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Approval | Keywords: approval, secure, securing
«God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board»
«Humor is tragedy plus time»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: humor, plus, pluses, tragedy
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
«Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Men | Keywords: animal, blushed, blushes
«One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.»
«A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Men | Keywords: acknowledges, liar, truthful
«How empty is theory in the presence of fact»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Theory | Keywords: empty, presence, theory
«For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.»