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Hours Quotes by Mark Twain
- Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for…
- Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the…
- Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular…
- He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.
- My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,…
- A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
- Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he…
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more…
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more…
- I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.
- In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
- Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
- Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his…
- If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me…
- His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea…
- A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a…
- It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in…
More Hours Quotes
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- My superpower is watching five hours of TV I'm not interested in because I can't reach the remote. — Nikhil Saluja
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use… — Rajneesh
- I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini
- One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson