Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Mark Twain Brainy Quotes


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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. 
Mark Twain 

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. 
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. 
Mark Twain 

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. 
Mark Twain 

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. 
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. 
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. 
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. 
Mark Twain 

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. 
Mark Twain 

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. 
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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later. 
Mark Twain 

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. 
Mark Twain 

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. 
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. 
Mark Twain 

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. 
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. 
Mark Twain 

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. 
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. 
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. 
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. 
Mark Twain

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