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After Quotes by Mark Twain
- After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
- Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular…
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
- Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I…
- I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
- Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
- Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he…
- Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?
- One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls,…
- When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
- There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away…
- This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to…
- I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found…
- Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
- The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other…
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
- No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
- There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the…
- One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.
More After Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov