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Said Quotes by Mark Twain
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However…
- He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep…
- As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come…
- Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They…
- I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
- As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its…
- Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.
- And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest…
- When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.
- It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that…
- A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.
- As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not…
- ...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…
- The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
- I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
- What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
- I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the…
- Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.
- He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy,…
- There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you…
- I said nothing of the sort.
- Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.
- I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be…
- When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you,…
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- I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was… — Alec Baldwin
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- All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a… — Christian Bale