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Back Quotes by Mark Twain
- We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
- I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently
- We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us -…
- I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more…
- A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will…
- I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
- This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass…
- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
- Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school…
- What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of…
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- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
- I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.… — Drew Barrymore