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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".
After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.
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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.
A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.