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Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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FRED WOODWORTH Mark Twain cannot be defined.
HAL HOLBROOK But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
MARK TWAIN To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
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KURT VONNEGUT Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you...
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HELEN KELLER His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the wh...
MARK TWAIN It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so r...
MARK TWAIN Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that...
J. D. HAYWORTH Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll li...
DICK VAN DYKE Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who w...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is fo...
MARK TWAIN I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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VAL KILMER Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'l...
DICK VAN DYKE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
MARK TWAIN Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
MARK TWAIN The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, ...
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MARK TWAIN I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
RUTH RENDELL Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Even the ugliest person's cellulite is more attractive than the most beautiful supermodel's lower in...
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Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, ARTHUR RIMBAUD Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
MARK TWAIN Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies whic...
OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH Aging is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
ANONYMOUS Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
MARK TWAIN You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of you imagin...
MARK TWAIN Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. B...
RICHARD CURTIS Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,
BILL BRADLEY One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom fro...
WILFRID SHEED [March 25 -] Songs and Stories for Everybody ... the Mark Twain of contemporary kids' music.
BILL HARLEY The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID When you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
STEVE J. LEATHERWOOD If you want to meet Mark Twain, all you have to do is use your brain!
STEVE RAY COLLINS It is a great boat for kids, or for dad to race at the international level.
GEORGE DOMENECH Confound it, it's foolish, Tom
MARK TWAIN There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.
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BOB NEWHART If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
TONY-PAUL DE VISSAGE If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
PETER FALK Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a h...
WILLIAM BLAKE No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as...
RICHARD CURTIS Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE It is such a pity that the beauty of this earth is marred by the ugliness of some men's actions.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn."
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as...
JOHN HOLMES If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
MARK TWAIN A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN I equate this to Noah and the flood. Noah had a lot of rising water. At the end of the boat ride was...
BOBBY MARTIN Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bu...
ROBERT LITTELL Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

[Mark...
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HAJRA CATIC Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS [Regarding the idea of] race, ... no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to e...
JACQUES BARZUN What a pity? Mankind often neglect the knowledge that will save their soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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MARC HAYES To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
HORACE MANN To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
HORACE MANN To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
HORACE MANN When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them....
DON MARQUIS The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt.
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CARRIE NUGENT The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
DON MARQUIS Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.
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WILL OXLEY When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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