It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. Mark Twain More Quotes by Mark Twain More Quotes From Mark Twain A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country. Mark Twain christian would-be country I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release. Mark Twain grief suicide heart If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves. Mark Twain life-changing change inspiring If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain cat inspiration men He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe. Mark Twain heart animal men Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it. Mark Twain moon want men Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts Mark Twain laughter race blow If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go. Mark Twain cigar smoking heaven I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education. Mark Twain leadership education trying Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. Mark Twain team-building achievement teamwork If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around. Mark Twain sweat law country To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life. Mark Twain hamlet-and-ophelia speech long Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. Mark Twain scotch wine drinking Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. Mark Twain race peace thinking I was born modest; not all over, but in spots. Mark Twain spots born relation Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds. Mark Twain mind beautiful memories Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale. Mark Twain free-will over-you moments I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone . Mark Twain telephones together may Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast. Mark Twain madness love-is love Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel. Mark Twain spoons intellectual healing
