quoted in Mark Twain in the Company of Women, by Laura Skandera-Trombley, p. I am very glad to sign the petition but I am in terror lest I should be asked to do something, for I don’t do anything now, but rest after 73 years of activity. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).Īn honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. ”Taming the Bicycle” Mark Twain quotes about politics There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it. Mark Twain’s Autobiography Quotes about outdoor sports If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes. That desire which is in us all to better other people’s condition by having them think as we think. Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits. There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort. The Babies speech 1879 Quotes About Human Nature Twins amount to a permanent riot and there ain’t any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. Timothy’s School for Girls, Catonsville, MY, 9 June 1909 There are three things which I consider excellent advice. Letter to Father Fitz-Simon, 5 June 1908 And the more disconsolating when it comes. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. Marriage-yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. ![]() ”Hellfire Hotchkiss,” reprinted in Satires and Burlesques quoted by Dorothy Quick in Advance Magazine, 2/1940Īrguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them but they do not examine compliments. It is good to obey all the rules when you’re young, so you’ll have the strength to break them when you’re old. You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy. You ought never to “sass” old people-unless they “sass” you first. ”Disappearance of Literature” speech Mark Twain Quotes About Family and KidsĪlways obey your parents when they are present.įamiliarity breeds contempt-and children. ![]() ![]() It’s a classic…something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar Quotes about books and readingĪ successful book is not made of what is in it, but of what is left out of it. ![]() This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. I included a few of his progressive quotes, but if you want to see all of them, check out the quote database I mentioned above.Īnd if you want to read more about Twainish quotes, play Ron Swanson or Tom Sawyer: Who Said It? Now on to the quotes! Mark Twain quotes about animalsĬoncerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn’t any. He (eventually) supported women’s suffrage and was outspoken against racism…but what was progressive in the late 1800s can look pretty problematic now. Here’s another thing you should know about Twain: he was a progressive.
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