Mark Twain quotes - page 45

There isn't anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it. (Mark Twain)
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. View quote
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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around Man waits not for time nor tide. View quote
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In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man what there is of it. View quote
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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries Mere killing would be too light. View quote
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I was young and foolish then now I am old and foolisher. View quote
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It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so. View quote
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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory then you can borrow money of them. View quote
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Write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for. View quote
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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. View quote
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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow. (Mark Twain)
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indianan 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 minefor I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel. View quote
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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer. View quote
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By his father he is English, by his mother he is American -- to my mind the blend which makes the perfect man. View quote
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Seasickness at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die. View quote
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We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you. View quote
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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined. View quote
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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this That we can't reach old age by another man's road. View quote
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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence. View quote
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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once not oftener. View quote
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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. (Mark Twain)
Varanasi is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together. View quote
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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it. View quote
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Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. View quote
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None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth. View quote
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