Mark Twain Quotes, Death Quotes, Men Quotes

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , People Quotes , Gentleman Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Motivational Quotes

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Vanity Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes

In love, you pay as you leave.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Love You Quotes

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Politics Quotes , Fleas Quotes

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Music Quotes , Hypocrisy Quotes

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Sheep Quotes

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Brother Quotes

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes , Honesty Quotes

The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Grief Quotes , Sadness Quotes

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Men Quotes

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Liars Quotes , Skills Quotes

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Civilization Quotes

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Play Quotes

I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Believe Quotes , Portraits Quotes

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , War Quotes , Moon Quotes