Mark Twain - Quote (#564)

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery
of fear - not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain

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

There is nothing so annoying as
to have two people go right on
talking when you're interrupting.
- Mark Twain

"The universal brotherhood of man is our most
precious possession, what there is of it."
- Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side
of the majority, it is time to reform."
- Mark Twain

"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books
alone would make a fairly good library out
of a library that hadn't a book in it."
- Mark Twain

Mark Twain - Quote (#563)

"Humor is a good thing. A saving thing."
- Mark Twain

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah
and his party did not miss the boat."
Mark Twain

"The human race has one really effective
weapon, and that is laughter."
- Mark Twain

"Climate is what we expect,
weather is what we get."
- Mark Twain

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without
knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a
boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the
thing difficult to obtain."
- Mark Twain

"Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Quote (#558)

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid,
but most stupid people are conservative."
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

"I like to play poker with politicians. They’re
easy to beat. Sometimes in poker it’s smarter to
lose with a winning hand so that you can win later
with a losing hand. Politicians can’t accept that."
- Havana (1990)

"The worst part about politics is that you're
always right and no one ever knows it."
- Unknown

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,
terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they
had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy
and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."
- Orson Welles (1915-1985)

"Its not the size of the dog in the fight,
its the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain

"When the only tool you own is a hammer,
every problem begins to resemble a nail."
- Abraham Maslow

Quote (#551)

Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Anonymous

"I don't give a damn for a man that
can only spell a word one way."
- Mark Twain

Education is the instruction of the
intellect in the laws of the nature.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Opportunity: A good chance that always
looks bigger going than coming.
- Anonymous

"We love but once, for once only are
we perfectly equipped for loving."
- Cyril Connolly

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Quotes - Favorites

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of
opinion our adversaries are insane."
- Mark Twain

Never interrupt your enemy
when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The trouble with the rat race is that
even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin

Words ought to be a little wild for
they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?
What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?

There is nothing new under the sun but there
are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotaria - Favorites

There's always somebody who is paid
too much, and taxed too little - and
it's always somebody else.
- Cullen Hightower

"First get your facts; then you
can distort them at your leisure."
- Mark Twain

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange
and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and
some folks have half a one for breakfast.
- Douglas Adams

The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream
things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

Quotaria

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how
much the old man had learned in 7 years.
- Mark Twain

There are only two tragedies in life:
one is not getting what one wants,
and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually,
who are you not to? You are a child of God.
- Marianne Williamson

We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us. It's not just in
some of us; it's in everyone.
- Marianne Williamson

Luck is a matter of preparation
meeting opportunity.
- Oprah Winfrey

Prayer is less about changing the world
than it is about changing ourselves.
- David J. Wolpe

Quotes - PBF2b

"What nature delivers to us is
never stale. Because what nature
creates has eternity in it."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"The earth laughs in flowers."
- e. e. cummings

"A good head and a good heart are
always a formidable combination."
- Nelson Mandela

Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain

Managers think about today.
Leaders think about tomorrow.
~ Dan McCreary

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a
fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln

Quotaria

"No one's life, liberty or property is safe
while the legislature is in session."
- Mark Twain

One man can make a difference
and every man should try.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Nothing leads to good
that is not natural."
- Friedrich Schiller

"Spring has returned. The Earth is
like a child that knows poems."
Rainer Maria Rilke

"Hell hath no fury like
a bureaucrat scorned."
- Milton Friedman

"There is nothing so absurd but
some philosopher has said it."
- Cicero

Quotaria

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only
difference is that lawyers merely rob you,
whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
- Anton Chekhov

What ought to be done to the man who invented
the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere
killing would be too light.
- Mark Twain

"Most turkeys taste better the day after;
my mother's tasted better the day before."
- Rita Rudner

"Your true value depends entirely
on what you are compared with."
- Bob Wells

"I love Mickey Mouse more than
any woman I've ever known."
- Walt Disney

He said ‘It’s all in your head,’
and I said, ‘So’s everything’
- Fiona Apple

Quotaria

"Laughter is the closest
distance between two people."
- Victor Borge

"Why do writers write?
Because it isn't there."
- Thomas Berger

"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still
exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain

"Always do right. This will gratify
some people and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle
your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

Quotes

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the
prudence never to practice either of them."
- Mark Twain

"He played the king as if afraid
someone else would play the ace."
- John Mason Brown

I can't understand why a person will take
a year to write a novel when he can easily
buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen

A nation is a society united by delusions about its
ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
- William Ralph Inge

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor;
but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable,
more people would be content to be ignorant than would
take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson

We've heard that a million monkeys
at a million keyboards could produce
the complete works of Shakespeare;
now, thanks to the Internet, we
know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky

Quotaria

"Love is the difficult realization that
something other than oneself is real."
- Iris Murdoch

"I find that a great part of the information
I have was acquired by looking up something
and finding something else on the way."
- Franklin P. Adams

"Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy

"Art may imitate life,
but life imitates TV."
- Ani DiFranco

"Good breeding consists of concealing how
much we think of ourselves and how little
we think of the other person."
- Mark Twain

"Sports is like a war
without the killing."
- Ted Turner

Quotaria

Words are only painted fire;
a book is the fire itself.
- Mark Twain

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute
power tends to corrupt absolutely
- Lord Acton

If the world should blow itself up,
the last audible voice would be that
of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov

"My work is a game, a
very serious game."
- M. C. Escher

"Great part of being a grownup,
you never have to do anything."
- Peter Blake

"Listening, not imitation, may be
the sincerest form of flattery."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Quotes

"I don't know if God exists,
but it would be better for
His reputation if He didn't."
- Jules Renard

"The coldest winter I ever spent
was a summer in San Francisco."
- Mark Twain

"I don't necessarily agree
with everything I say."
- Marshall McLuhan

"Weeds are flowers too, once
you get to know them."
- A. A. Milne

"You must first have a lot of patience
to learn to have patience."
- Stanislaw J. Lec

"The great thing about democracy is that it gives
every voter a chance to do something stupid."
- Art Spander

Quotes - Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries
disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain

Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find
any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
- Mark Twain

Many a small thing has been made large
by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain

When in doubt
tell the truth.
- Mark Twain

"Truth is more of a
stranger than fiction."
- Mark Twain

"I have been through some terrible things in
my life, some of which actually happened."
- Mark Twain

Quotes - Mark Twain

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you. This is the principal difference
between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain

"Never let school get in the way of your education."
- Mark Twain

"A lie can travel halfway around the world
while the truth is putting on its shoes."
- Mark Twain

Part of the secret of success in
life is to eat what you like and
let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain

"By trying we can easily learn to endure
adversity. Another man's, I mean."
- Mark Twain

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man
should challenge me, I would take him kindly
and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to
a quiet place and kill him."
- Mark Twain

Quotes - Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to
possibilities. Truth isn't.
- Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country,
we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom
of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
- Mark Twain

Man is the only Animal that
Blushes. Or needs to.
- Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks
to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Mark Twain

"You cannot depend on your eyes when
your imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't
have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain

Quotes - Mark Twain

"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
- Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain

"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."
- Mark Twain

Never put off till tomorrow what
you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain

"I've never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain