Mark Twain Quotes

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Mark Twain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Topics

LifeGoodManSleepRichPoor

There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

Joe Clark

SometimesTwoExpectBearsMatch

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.

Joan Rivers

MeSomeoneWillPraiseAnythingWho

I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.

John Hickenlooper

TimeLongLong TimeSayMayorLaws

You have to recognize what the markets are doing, what the rules and regulations are doing, and all the more reasons that we've got to find some more solutions in particular with coal.

Matt Mead

DoingYouRulesFindMoreSolutions

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

Tracy Morgan

LifeChildBetterKnowAbleWanted

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Tom Wilson

SmileHappinessYouFindRightNose

What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?

Ronald D. Moore

HeartSoulHumanityIntelligentMean

I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.

Michael Showalter

TimeCuteCatsWhyMeanWild

Anybody who's been to Ecuador wants to go back because it's beautiful out there.

Michael Steger

BeautifulBackGoOutBecauseBeen

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

Mireille Guiliano

JoyEatingStartDietYouCounting

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.

Judith Butler

WarWorldSpeakViolenceOutUp

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

Jonathan Lethem

MePathsFindFeelingsOnlyAccess

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