Mark Twain Quotes, Ocean Quotes, Creativity Quotes

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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