Mark Twain Quotes, Animal Quotes, Feelings Quotes

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

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

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

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All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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