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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«I do not like work even when someone else does it»
«You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
depend, depend on, focus, out of focus
«Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
been, century, growths, knows, married, Married Love, married man, married woman, No Man, No Quarter, perfect, perfecting, perfects, quarter, really, seems, slowest, swiftest, woman
«The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example»
«It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Funny
| Keywords:
conscience, country, freedom, Freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, goodness, practice, precious, prudence, speech, unspeakably
«A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
around, come around, get around to, halfway, ITS, lie, putting, Putts, put over, put through, put under, shod, shoes, still, stilled, stiller, stillest, stilling, stills, The Truth, the world, travel, travel by, travel to, truth, while, whiling
«Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
children, idiots, protects, providence, tested, The Idiot
«Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
clothes, influence, influencing, naked, society
«Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
four, hours, late, repartee, think of, Too late, twenties, twenty-four, twenty-four hours, twenty
«I can live for two months on a good compliment.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
compliment, complimented, each month, good, Good Living, live, months, month by month, This month, two
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