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Him Quotes by Mark Twain
- There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in…
- Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But…
- They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
- You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll…
- We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
- Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to…
- There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.
- We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
- He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep…
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
- Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
- Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have…
- It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
- 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
- Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and…
- Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding…
- I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the…
- It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent…
- My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
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- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that… — Paulo Coelho
- Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that… — Cassandra Clare
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle