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Cannot Quotes by Mark Twain
- Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
- I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and…
- There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made…
- As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions…
- Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
- I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and…
- America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
- I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.
- I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul…
- Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
- Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
- If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
- When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
- Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men…
- 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…
- Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very…
- Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at…
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden