Mark Twain Quotes, People Quotes, Age Quotes

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

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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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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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The funniest things are the forbidden.

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

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I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

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