Mark Twain Quotes, Trouble Quotes

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.

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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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A German joke is no laughing matter.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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