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Doubtful Quotes by Mark Twain
- An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
- The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim…
- As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its…
- ...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and…
- A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful.…
- A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him,…
- We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it…
- The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim…
More Doubtful Quotes
- I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for… — Ed Balls
- A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know… — Aesop
- In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency. — Mark Twain
- Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all. — John Calvin
- Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two… — Charles Caleb Colton
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson
- Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards
- The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the… — George Wald
- The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never… — Mark Twain
- In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. — Anne Baxter