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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…
- The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth…
- We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have…
- It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
- 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…
- By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know…
- There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the…
- I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to…
- 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.
- Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to…
- The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.
- A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
- Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?
- The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...
- Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as…
- Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
- 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…
- 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 Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov