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Once Quotes by Mark Twain
- If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.
- I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me…
- Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.
- Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does…
- Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing…
- I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
- It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault…
- Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was…
- In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would…
- Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the…
- You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat…
- It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
- Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
- Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried…
- As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions…
- By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each…
- More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
- ...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and…
- When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
- Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour