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Most Quotes by Mark Twain
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in…
- 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…
- I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl…
- I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that…
- Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
- It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most…
- In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple,…
- The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
- But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our…
- It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter…
- The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
- The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble…
- The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
- I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.
- Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely…
- India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand…
- So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country…
- Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
- The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
- The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle