Special Dictionary / Quotations / Mark Twain
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541 Quotations of Mark Twain.
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't ...2.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wan ...3.
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to ...4.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants ...5.
A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catch ...6.
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a v ...7.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immor ...8.
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a ste ...9.
A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth ...10.
A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, ma ...11.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than h ...12.
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly appla ...13.
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put ...14.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on it ...15.
A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his trai ...16.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own appr ...17.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own app ...18.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself ...19.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by ...20.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no ot ...| Next Page >> |
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