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Mark Twain Quotes

«Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me»
«A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty»
«I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: hanker
«I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born»
«If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick»
«When you are in politics you are in a wasp's nest with a short shirt-tail, as the saying is»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: shirt, wasp, wasps
«The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh»
«The only people I know who still believe in hell are the ones who had the proper kind of upbringing»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: upbringing
«If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Mankind
«An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar»