Mark Twain Quotes, Looks Quotes, Mouths Quotes

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

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It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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