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Twenty Quotes by Mark Twain
- When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how…
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
- In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
- The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other…
- I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.
- Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was…
- No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
- Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the things you did do. So throw off…
- Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon
- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did.
More Twenty Quotes
- The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. — Chinua Achebe
- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun
- Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people. — Samantha Bee
- Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of… — Irving Berlin
- Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. — Ambrose Bierce