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Ends Quotes by Mark Twain
- If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more…
- I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me…
- We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a…
- Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is…
- I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
- I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
- We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.
- When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are…
- When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
- If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
- Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
- Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's…
- Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.
- Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
- Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had…
- The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will…
- There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in…
- We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never…
- If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings…
More Ends Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C.S. Lewis
- Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should… — Dalai Lama