Mark Twain Quotes - Page 7

Nature has no originality-I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats-repeats-repeats-repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true.

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

In light matters-matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things-he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind - politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

من لا يريد القراءة ليس بأفضل ممن لا يستطيع القراءة

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.