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His Own 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…
- He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own…
- Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
- I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
- A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
- Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out
- It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would…
- ...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or…
- You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning,…
- What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race…
- Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy,…
- 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…
- Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and…
- Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.
- I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.
- Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps…
- It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.
- Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly…
- A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval
More His Own Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr