Mark Twain

(52 votes)   We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(52 votes)   What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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(51 votes)   Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

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(51 votes)   Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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(51 votes)   Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

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(51 votes)   Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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(51 votes)   Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

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(50 votes)   A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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(50 votes)   Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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(50 votes)   There is no such thing as ''the Queen's English.'' The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

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(50 votes)   We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

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(50 votes)   When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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(49 votes)   A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

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(49 votes)   A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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(49 votes)   Always obey your parents - when they are present.

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