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Times Quotes by Mark Twain
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
- There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is…
- Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised…
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
- I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when…
- I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.
- The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made…
- In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
- Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the…
- A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will…
- ...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…
- Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
- I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
- 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.
- 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…
- He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
- There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
- If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
- But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain…
- It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace…
- I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if…
- As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the…
- Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.
- It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.
More Times Quotes
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. — Darren Aronofsky
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding… — Amitabh Bachchan