Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Education is the mother of leadership.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
-
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
-
This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
-
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
-
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
-
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
-
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
-
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
-
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
-
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
-
I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
-
I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
-
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
-
I can't not be who I am.
-
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
-
No man is infallible.
-
I think every school in the world should have a sports program.
-
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.
-
I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
-
When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
-
I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
-
To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
