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Reason Quotes by Mark Twain
- 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…
- Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have…
- The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality…
- A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it;…
- The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.
- I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
- Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is…
- We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us -…
- 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…
- From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure…
- There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to…
- We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what…
- for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
- You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
- when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort…
- Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
- The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
- Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar…
- That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
- There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason.
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I t Is Easy To Find A Reason To Be Sad, But It Is Much Harder To Find A Reason To Be… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They… — Barack Obama
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson