Mark Twain Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

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At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

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I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

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Dance like nobody's looking.

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What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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