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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 4

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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

Christian, Religious, Religion

"Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

Wealth, Satisfied

Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.385, Library of America

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Life, Opportunity, Careers

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

Pessimist, Optimist, Wells

Comparison is the death of joy.

Fitness Motivational, Joy, Comparison

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Change, Thank You, Memorial Day

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational Sports

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

Funny, Fine, Taxes

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Witty, Truth, Deep Thought

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

Atheist, Responsibility, Men

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

Vacation, Secret, Vocation

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

Differences, Succeed, Failing

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

Future, Interest, My Future

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

Inspirational, Ordinary, Ordinary Life

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

Lying, Boots, Half

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Self, Media, America

Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

German Language, Awful, Toothache

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.148, Courier Corporation

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

Solitude, Boring, Wells

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Men, Dies

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Race, Political, Needs

Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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