A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. Mark Twain More Quotes by Mark Twain More Quotes From Mark Twain Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there. Mark Twain humbleairhands The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Mark Twain machinesinkmay Be good and you will be lonely. Mark Twain being-alonelonelyloneliness Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. Mark Twain sarcasmsarcasticknowing Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Mark Twain animalmenthinking To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. Mark Twain squanderingachievementwriting Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution. Mark Twain citizenslawwatches I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers. Mark Twain inspirational-lifeanswerswant There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. Mark Twain medialightbusiness Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them. Mark Twain seductivecurveshands Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. Mark Twain lordhopetree My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. Mark Twain mothers-daymombaby One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself Mark Twain criticizecriticismpeople If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease. Mark Twain ticketsvotingchristian 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 weddingmarriagelove I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark Twain beermenbook Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them. Mark Twain atheistreligiousanimal The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience. Mark Twain lessonsteachingbook The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity. Mark Twain strongbrotherchristian I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. Mark Twain shiningwittymen
