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189 quotes (Page 2 of 8 pages)Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Grammar
Mark Twain
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Denial
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
World
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Deception
Mark Twain
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Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Certainty
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Weather
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Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Secrets
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Faith
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Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
Familiarity
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Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Preachers and Preaching
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Example
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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
Politicians and Politics
Mark Twain
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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Forgiveness
Mark Twain
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Nations
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Facts
Mark Twain
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Golf
Mark Twain
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
Futility
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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
Popularity
Mark Twain
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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Heaven
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
Money
Mark Twain
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Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
Honesty
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Trials
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Money
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I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Evolution
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Compliments
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun