Mark Twain Quotes, Age Quotes, Earth Quotes

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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The best of us would rather be popular than right.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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