Mark Twain Quotes, Wise Quotes, Stupid Quotes

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

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

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The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

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