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Years 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…
- New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug…
- It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the…
- 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…
- Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they…
- That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove…
- 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.…
- There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today…
- I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
- We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have…
- If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement…
- I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
- I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
- You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.
- My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,…
- It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think…
- A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and…
- 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…
- I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.
- He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong