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Wells Quotes by Mark Twain
- A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains,…
- To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
- Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
- We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we…
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time.…
- Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my…
- 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…
- Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They…
- Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
- Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother…
- 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…
- I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.
- I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.…
- Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
- Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have…
- A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect…
- Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
- I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
- You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat…
- I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and…
- 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…
- Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong