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Quotes from Mark Twain's Notebook — Mark Twain

1835–1910 United States

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21 quotes

Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

What is the difference between a taxidermist & a tax-collector? The taxidermist only takes your skin.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1898)

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite — but they all worship money.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right.
God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot"

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

None but the dead have free speech.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

France has usually been governed by prostitutes.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

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.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all — the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mark Twain (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.