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Something Quotes by Mark Twain
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim…
- 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…
- Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have…
- I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on…
- The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble…
- Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The…
- Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and…
- 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;…
- If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help…
- There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
- 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…
- God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.
- The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly…
- Do something everyday that you don't want to do.
- The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you…
- Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.
- The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period…
- To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame…
More Something Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle