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 don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

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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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Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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Explore. Dream. Discover.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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