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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
dangerous, I am, millionaires, offer, opposed, opposes, position, positioning, would-be
«Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.»
«We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books theoretically, at least.»
«In religion, India is the only millionaire - the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined»
«When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Family,
Teenage
| Keywords:
astonished, fourteen, my father, Old Boys, old man, seven, Seven Years, The old man, twenty one
«Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it»
«Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
line of business, prophesy
«Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.»
«It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
balls, pick up, rolling, sportsmanship
«I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
disappointed, heavenly, Heavenly Father, monkey, The Monkey
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