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title: "26 Sometimes Quotes By Mark Twain"
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> [Sometimes people do get hurt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sometimes-people-do-get-hurt/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sometimes-too-much-to-drink-is-barely-enough/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-like-a-good-story-well-told-that-is-the-reason-i-am-sometimes/)

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> [Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/honesty-is-often-the-best-policy-but-sometimes-the-appearance-of-it/)

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> [History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/history-never-repeats-itself-at-best-it-sometimes-rhymes/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-s-a-good-spot-tucked-away-somewhere-in-everybody-you-ll-be-a/)

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> [The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-waves-most-washed-me-off-the-raft-sometimes-but-i-hadn-t-any/)

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> [I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-like-the-truth-sometimes-but-i-don-t-care-enough-for-it-to-hanker/)

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> [I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-must-have-a-prodigious-quantity-of-mind-it-takes-me-as-much-as-a/)

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> [Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sometimes-my-feelings-are-so-hot-that-i-have-to-take-the-pen-and-put/)

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> [I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-played-chess-with-him-and-would-have-beaten-him-sometimes-only-he/)

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> [The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-fear-of-lightning-is-one-of-the-most-distressing-infirmities-a/)

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> [Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/our-heroes-are-men-who-do-things-which-we-recognize-with-regret-and/)

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> [To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/to-string-incongruities-and-absurdities-together-in-a-wandering-and/)

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> [Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sometimes-you-gwyne-to-git-hurt-en-sometimes-you-gwyne-to-git-sick/)

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> [We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-are-always-more-anxious-to-be-distinguished-for-a-talent-which-we-2/)

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> [There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-are-no-accidents-all-things-have-a-deep-and-calculated-purpose/)

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> [Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sometimes-i-lifted-a-chicken-that-warn-t-roosting-comfortable-and/)

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> [Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/clothes-make-the-man-naked-people-have-little-or-no-influence-on/)

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> [What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/what-a-world-of-trouble-those-who-never-marry-escape-there-are-many/)

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> [And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/and-always-we-had-wars-and-more-wars-and-still-other-wars-all-over/)

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> [It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-governed-by-minorities-seldom-or-never-by-majorities-it/)

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> [It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-human-life-we-are-blown-upon-the-world-we-float-buoyantly-upon/)

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> [Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/narrative-should-flow-as-flows-the-brook-down-through-the-hills-and/)

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> [The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-people-of-those-foreign-countries-are-very-very-ignorant-they/)

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> [Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/unconsciously-we-all-have-a-standard-by-which-we-measure-other-men/)

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## Other authors on Sometimes

## More by Mark Twain

> [Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

> [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/)

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