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Fifteen Quotes by Mark Twain
- We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we…
- In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in…
- An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and…
- We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we…
- Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life…
More Fifteen Quotes
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman. — Honore de Balzac
- I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my… — Adele
- It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that… — Robert Benchley
- At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for… — Robert Benchley
- The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. — Lenny Bruce
- The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a… — Abdallah II
- Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for… — Luther Burbank
- I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. — George Burns
- One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was… — James Caan
- Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather
- At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no… — Maya Angelou