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Seems Quotes by Mark Twain
- The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will…
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
- If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.…
- 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…
- My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,…
- Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth…
- A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.
- It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from…
- Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and…
- Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
- Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one…
- To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
- Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human…
- To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not…
- Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is…
- It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity…
- Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have…
- The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its…
- Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational…
- The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the…
More Seems Quotes
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for… — Dave Attell
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe