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Sound Quotes by Mark Twain
- In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple,…
- I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer…
- What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
- That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then…
- Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
- The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- 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…
- I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that…
- It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out…
- Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
- It's not as bad as it sounds.
- A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.
- In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.
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- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I like the sound a typewriter makes. — Paul Auster
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- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
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- He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith. — Abu Bakr
- Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth. — Stephen Baldwin