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Twain Quotes |
"What
is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?
The taxidermist takes only your skin."
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think
you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish
the rest."
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world
owes you nothing. It was here first."
"Honesty is the best policy-when there is money in it."
"I am different from [George] Washington; I have a higher,
grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can
lie, but I won't."
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of
Congress. But I repeat myself."
"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see,
I have friends in both places."
"If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything."
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they
do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I
do understand."
"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to
speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September,
April, November, May, March, June, December, August and
February."
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over
the man who can't read them."
"There are several good protections against temptations, but
the surest is cowardice."
"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is
nobler and no trouble."
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is
obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize
it."
"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in
the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty
of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and
can't read."
"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 at how much the old man had
learned in seven years."
"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against
his being able to deceive other people."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is
time to pause and reflect." |
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Quotes of the Week |
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"A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can
never be found; for a happiness that is diminished by
being shared is not big enough to make us happy." -
Thomas Merton, American poet and author (1915-1968) |
"To be
successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with
your work."
--Sister Mary Lauretta |
"There is no such
thing as a great talent without great will-power."
--Balzac |
"You may be
disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you
don't try."
--Beverly Sills |
"The chief danger
in life is that you may take too
many precautions."
--Alfred Adler |
"Be daring, be
different, be impractical; be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the
play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the
slaves of the ordinary."
--Cecil Beaton |
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