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Tell Quotes by Mark Twain
- He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
- Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal…
- I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me…
- It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
- I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
- Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.
- Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.
- I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
- Never tell a lie-except for practice.
- No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference…
- None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.
- Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have…
- The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
- 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…
- When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and…
- Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything
- The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't…
- If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
- If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
- You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that…
- The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,…
- I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul…
- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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